Baton Rouge, La. A renowned photojournalist and a decent man died this week. Eddie Adams's most famous image, of course, was the photograph he took on February 1, 1968, outside a Buddhist temple in Saigon, then the capital of the Republic of Vietnam. It showed the summary execution of a Vietcong "suspect" by a South Vietnamese officer. Adams, a legendary Associated Press photographer, subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize. The picture -- politicians, commentators, generals and historians have claimed -- "lost the war" for America. As with most photo icons, the real story is different from the mythology; unfortunately, the myth...