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Friday, February 16, 2018
The Vietnam War’s Great Lie
In the years that followed the Tet Offensive, one of the Vietnam War’s largest military campaigns, which saw its 50th anniversary commemorated in late January, Americans would torture themselves. How could they have got it so wrong? A Communist uprising across South Vietnam claimed thousands of lives, and their perceived success had turned public opinion against the war by the middle of 1968, an abject lesson in propaganda and its latter day manifestation, “fake news.”
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