The galling outcome of this man's influence on and then instigation of a policy of killing people ( the Vietnamese deaths totalled nearly two million) while disregarding the vast intelligence and background of many firstclass military and long-standing foreign-service people high in the ranks of the State and Defense Departments simply cannot be forgotten nor forgiven, ever. The people advising him had been there,lived there, knew the nationalist purpose (not Communist take-over by force) of the Vietnamese public. He brazenly defied these advisers and went forward in designing the war, troops, bombing, and the completely failed policy of the US murdering our way to containing what he ignorantly saw as a threat to the US and to the West. Clearly a criminal, should have been tried and sentenced.Not really foggy at all.
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The Fog of War