Liette Gidlow
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#Historian here.

Even in this age of polarization, I find myself deeply worried about the profound de-politicization of so many Americans. Today's evidence?

Today I #amteaching college students about the Vietnam war using Errol Morris' award-winning film, THE FOG OF WAR. 1/
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Liette Gidlow
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2/ The film contrasts the recollections about the war of Robert MacNamara, the elderly former SecDef for President Johnson, to historical evidence about the war from the time. The contrast shows that MacNamara, forty years after the war, still cannot tell the truth about the war.
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3/ This is painfully evident in the discussion of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. MacNamara maintains that the US was unambiguously attacked, but naval commanders at the time were not at all sure of that.
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