Posted on 01/07/2021 2:37:06 PM PST by Borges
Neil Sheehan, the Vietnam War correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who obtained the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times, leading the government for the first time in American history to get a judge to block publication of an article on grounds of national security, died on Thursday at his home in Washington. He was 84.
Susan Sheehan, his wife, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Sheehan, who covered the war from 1962 to 1966 for United Press International and The Times, was also the author of “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer in 1989. Reviewing it in the Times, Ronald Steel wrote, “If there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.”
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Some intresting things on Wiki (well, it’s Wiki, so FWIW)
McNamara accused China of harboring imperial aspirations like those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. According to McNamara, the Chinese were conspiring to “organize all of Asia” against the United States:
China—like Germany in 1917, like Germany in the West and Japan in the East in the late 30s, and like the USSR in 1947—looms as a major power threatening to undercut our importance and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against us.[17]
To encircle the Chinese, the United States aimed to establish “three fronts” as part of a “long-run effort to contain China”:
There are three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China (realizing that the USSR “contains” China on the north and northwest):
(a) the Japan–Korea front;
(b) the India–Pakistan front; and
(c) the Southeast Asia front.[17]
I’m sure China had no influence on the 2020 elections. /s
Some intresting things on Wiki (well, it’s Wiki, so FWIW)
McNamara accused China of harboring imperial aspirations like those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. According to McNamara, the Chinese were conspiring to “organize all of Asia” against the United States:
China—like Germany in 1917, like Germany in the West and Japan in the East in the late 30s, and like the USSR in 1947—looms as a major power threatening to undercut our importance and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against us.[17]
To encircle the Chinese, the United States aimed to establish “three fronts” as part of a “long-run effort to contain China”:
There are three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China (realizing that the USSR “contains” China on the north and northwest):
(a) the Japan–Korea front;
(b) the India–Pakistan front; and
(c) the Southeast Asia front.[17]
I’m sure China had no influence on the 2020 elections. /s
I really didn’t know much about this guy (nor the PP). I made (my usual of late - sigh) doubt post above.
All he did was weaken a country.
I read A Bright Shining Lie back in the day. It looked at the Vietnam War through the experiences of a MACV advisor.
https://www.historynet.com/john-paul-vann-man-and-legend.htm
“Obtained”
Bit different than how the media treats the exposure of the DNC-MSM 2016 election corruption emails.
It’s worse then that.
His actions led to the abandonment of Vietnam, the rise and victory of the Khmer Rouge, and the deaths of 2.5 million people in Cambodia, and at least another few hundred thousand in the re-education camps erected by the North Vietnamese.
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