That's the title of a nice little piece by Thomas Lipscomb in this week's edition of Human Events. File it in your collection of "stuff we know that isn't so." Moving beyond the true but now tiresome argument that we won the war on the battlefield but lost the public relations campaign, Lipscomb argues that even though Vietnam itself was lost, the effort stabilized the entire region, prevented many dominoes from falling, and laid the groundwork for the emergence of the "Asian tigers." Puts to rest the fallacy that minorities served disproportionately in that war, a falsehood often trotted out regarding Iraq, too.
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