Retired General William Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, has died.
I don’t know that much about Westmoreland, to be honest. I know that he tried to fight a conventional war in unconventional circumstances, which wasn’t a good idea, and that he was famous for offering optimistic platitudes (light at the end of the tunnel) that were in complete contradiction to the images and news coming out of Vietnam, and that he never conceded that the US lost the Vietnam War.
A lot of people say he was a good man who really believed he was doing the right thing. But as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It’s unfortunate that the current administration seems to have learned nothing from his troubled legacy.
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