Volume 32, Number 9 · May 30, 1985
The Ancient Mariner
By Ronald Steel
No More Vietnams
by Richard Nixon
Arbor House, 240 pp., $14.95
A Vietcong Memoir
by Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, by Doan Van Toai
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 350 pp., $17.95
The tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the ignominious departure of the Americans has brought forth an abundance of post-mortems and reinterpretations. The passions released by the war have made it impossible for many, even at this distance, to approach the subject with equanimity. The rhetoric is charged with too much history and too many allusions. Today in Central America many of the arguments heard in the mid-1960s are being repeated. The Vietnam War cannot be put to rest because the issues it raised—the containment of communism in the third world, the limits of American intervention, and the proper definition of the national interest—are still hotly contested.
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