Wednesday, September 01, 2010
LINK DUMP
[It appears I'm blogging again ... ]
- Director John Woo is going to make a film about the Flying Tigers. It would be difficult to imagine a movie project more calculated to appeal to me.
- For reasons not worth explaining, I went looking for a citation to the interview with Bui Tin, the senior North Vietnamese army officer who, after becoming disillusioned with the brutality of the victorious communists, defected to live in France and wrote a memoir (in French, unfortunately). I wanted to refresh my memory about his clear statement that 1) the Tet Offensive was a disastrous military loss for the communists that was 2) turned into a spectacular political victory through the workings of the anti-war left in America. If you've never seen this brief text, you should take five minutes to click the link and read it. If you subscribe to the established, orthodox view of the history of America's war in Vietnam, the interview with Bui Tin's should be the door that leads out from that place. While you're at it, you might want to check out this longer memoir by a press correspondent who worked in Vietnam in those years, who has come to regret the echo-chamber of anti-Americanism that defined the narrative upon which the now-orthodox view is based.
- Speaking of opposing narratives, here's the beginning of a multi-part piece about how the culture war over school curriculum is destroying education in America.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 5:29 AM
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