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...American soldiers in Viet Nam committed an unknowable number of rapes, including those attending the massacre at My Lai, in part when the units were incompetently or viciously led, but also in part because it was hard for the Americans to distinguish officially friendly Vietnamese civilians from the Viet Cong...
...fate of Lop, a captured Viet Cong captain, was a starkly dramatic moment in a nationwide battle that lasted 25 days and was fought in more than 100 cities, towns and military bases. Perhaps 37,000 South Vietnamese guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers died during Tet and subsequent cleanup operations. The losses of the American and Saigon-regime forces were about a tenth of that. Tet was a crushing defeat that practically annihilated the political and military capabilities of the Viet Cong. Yet the offensive marked the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement -- a disengagement freighted with national guilt...
Other wars, however, arise because the combatants misunderstand each other. That was true of Vietnam. The U.S. saw the Viet Cong as foot soldiers of an international army commanded by the Soviet Union and, in the crucial early years, by China...
America isn't afraid of "the Vietnamese" anymore--we now understand that the war may have had as much to do with American politicians as with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. Kissinger sounded like a relic, pushing a party line we're all embarrassed to hear...
...North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify a country that had been artificially divided. While they were doing so under a now discredited political banner, they still had the powerful force of nationalism on their side. The Bosnian Serbs, by contrast, are fighting to perpetuate their domination over large parts of a country that had been artificially unified...