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Originally Posted by Dad01
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When you find a book like this, immediately look into the background of the author. And you'll just about always find the common threads of ideological motivation. Nick Turse, the author of this book, is no different. There is some truth to what he says - as there always is - but it's how the truth is interpreted... and extrapolated into some grand theme.... that matters.
I haven't read this book - but I sure will. To see if my suspicions about what it omits are valid. I'm guessing is what it omits are two main things: 1. The good things that American soldiers did in Vietnam to help the people; and 2: The atrocities committed by the North Vietnamese. But I have heard of this book before, and it prompted me to research the author to find out who he is. And sure enough... Turse seems to be a typical Ivy League educated Left Wing "journalist" toeing the party line for the Left. He's done a lot of work on war crimes around the world.
For this book, he starts out with the Pentagon's own war crimes report on the Mi Lai Massacre... and goes from there. I wonder if he ever looked at the war crimes reports of the North Vietnamese ABOUT the North Vietnamese.... if they even exist. I bet not. It is merely another political polemic from a radical.
In January 2016 Turse agreed to remove defamatory statements in the book that the 48th Assault Helicopter Company knowingly killed civilians in 1972. This is where I first heard this guy's name in a story about the book.
Writing in 2000, Turse justified the Columbine Massacre in 1999 as being the act of "radical revolutionaries" striking out at the US war machine..... and it didn't matter that the perps probably didn't look at their atrocity this way. It still fit Turse's narrative..... because that's what he WANTS the grand storyline to be. One historian said that Turse's assertion "only makes sense in an academic culture in which transgression is by definition political and in which any rage against society can be considered radical."
And you can bet your bottom dollar, this is what Turse thinks of ALL criminals and bad actors within America's borders. They're revolutionaries struggling against "the system" - even if they don't know it.
That's how these people use facts. As a weapon. And they use facts to construct pseudo-history.
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