Too much partisanship
People on the planet who most fret Murdoch’s bid for Dow Jones are not Wall Street Journal’s China-based journalists. But the Democrats.
WSJ’s editorial is well-known as an anti-Democrat powershouse for years. Today’s commentary against Jimmy Carter is so telling that how far the Journal’s editorial can go in favour of the Republican. They just publish something so biased.
I am shocked that Mark Moyar, the author of a book about Vietnam War, writes about history in such a partisan way. Perhaps only a few Republican buy his book. You just can’t write a history book by using IF repeatedly. Those who are more or less informed of American’s war in Vietnam from 50s to 70s basically agree this war was a systymatic failure, a failure of not a single party or administration, decades after the Pentagon paper was released.
In Moyar’s arguement, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge’s appointment was the turning point of the war, which was delayed by JFK. The Pentagon paper and David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest are strongly telling how lies from the junior level to senior to the White House and Congress messed up American’s policy, which at best would have to end the war and in turn saved more lives.
The key point that Moyar missed is the Vietnam War was not winnable at all no matter who was in the White House. It is so sad that American authors on this subject still can’t face the fact,as the politicians did in the 60s and 70s, the war was not against communism, but a nation. As a war so far away with very limited touch with the locals, Amerian simply was not able to win it. It is also true in today’s Iraq.
The Vietnam War (and history) doesn’t matter much to today’s Americans. But commentators won’t hesitate to use it in favour of their partisan agenda.