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Lansdale agreed with his friend Bui Diem, writing in a letter to the Washington Post, “Only if the Vietnamese have a free chance to determine their future now, and use it, will there be any point to all the sacrifices we have made in Vietnam or any rationale to our present withdrawal with which we Americans can live with ourselves afterwards here at home.” But his views were mocked by the Post’s editors, who argued that “this is the time to stop pursuing causes in Vietnam and instead to take whatever gains can be perceived, cut losses, and come home.”22 That reflected the mood of the Nixon ...more
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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