tz, in the Long-edited Vietnam Ten Years After, writes in defense of the American involvement in Vietnam, and argues that even a critic opposed to that involvement must agree that the very negative results predicted did come about in the end.
Podhoretz writes in this context that this critic "minces no words about the atrocities the Communists committed in Hue where they displayed unprecedented brutality, slaughtering minor government functionaries, and other innocuous figures as well as harmless foreign doctors, schoolteachers, and missionaries. Nor, finally, does he make any bones about the results of the Communist victory in Vietnam. He speaks of the 'Vietnamese
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