Volume 25, Number 19 · December 7, 1978
Vietnam: The Defense's Case
By Kevin Buckley
America in Vietnam
by Guenter Lewy
Oxford University Press, 540 pp., $19.95
In America in Vietnam Guenter Lewy, a political scientist, attempts to exculpate American wrongdoing in Vietnam. Oddly enough, he also provides an extremely comprehensive and damning catalogue of the physical destruction, especially of civilians, caused by American firepower. Nevertheless, he provides legal absolution for most of the killing—which may be a comfort to the policy-makers who ran the war and those who would like a freer hand to plan such 'interventions' in the future. Lewy's absolution will be little comfort to the millions of victims.
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