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To: Billthedrill
Wait, this must be good news! Now in the Texas schoolbooks we'll have Vietnam seen as the response of the American allies to clear North Vietnamese aggression, right? Right? Uh...why did it get quiet all of a sudden?...

I don't get your point.

17 posted on 05/13/2002 12:35:28 PM PDT by ladtx
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To: ladtx
Sorry - too elliptical - my point is that if you're going to reconsider wars with a sensitivity to the point of view of everyone who might be "offended" then I think the good Perfessor's got some 'splainin' to do with regard to the party line on the U.S. in Vietnam. Not that the academic point of view regarding that war will be as subject to review as that of the Texas one. Nor that, I suspect, of the Mexican revolution told with sensitivity to the point of view of the Habsburgs. Nor, that, I suspect, of the Russian revolution told with sensitivity to the point of view of the Romanovs, or the Kulaks. In fact, (and I'm not going too far out on a limb here) I suspect that historical revisionism of the type being considered here is going to be verrrrrrry selective indeed.

I could be wrong, but the smart money's the other way.

21 posted on 05/13/2002 12:48:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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