Were We Wrong About Vietnam?

No question that human beings can ask themselves is more attractive morally than “Were we wrong?”

It is a question now being insistently put to those of us who opposed the Vietnam War. The Cambodian horrors and the shameful Hanoi policy toward refugees are evidence, we are told, that we were wrong. Or at the least they provide a reason for reconsidering our views. Even if the good faith of those who put this question may sometimes be doubted, there can be little harm, perha...