Carpet bombing
One of the lies told by the antiwar movement was the concept of "carpet bombing" It brings up images of bloodthirsty generals deciding which province to obliterate that day. The reality is a table surrounded by the president and his aides having the hubris to think they know something about tactical bombing and drawing circles around landmarks to avoid bombing for political reasons, many of which were killing our guys. I think the real reason they wanted to avoid bombing Haiphong is they might hit a ship of an "ally". I say this because of all the French medicine our guys found every time a medical cache was captured.
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