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Old 02-10-2006, 08:11 AM
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exlrrp, I believe you'd really like Ho Chi Minh: A Life, by William Duiker. It doesn't gloss over either the good or the bad. .
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Read it, its on my shelf now, one of my most well thumbed references.
No one can understand the Vietnam War who has not studied the life of Ho Chi Minh. An Amazing man, a truly amazing story.

Fred:
"What was good was the what we were thinking vs what they were thinking at the same time."
exactly!! One of the missed communications was the escalation of the Air War. This was in response to the VC attack on the Pleiku Airbase in '65, done when MacGeorge Bundy was in Vietnam.
Because this happened while Bundy was there, LBJ took this as an official sign from the DRU that they wanted to ramp up the war so he commenced the air war over North Vietnam.
In Macnamaras book we find that the attack was planned and committed by a local VC commander months in advance and he said he didn't have a clue who Macgeorge Bundy was and it didn't matter anyway.
And Thats History, folks
Stay good
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