Reading Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie to Understand the Truth about the Vietnam War

In this response to Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, the student discusses how America told itself stories to justify the Vietnam War. The student notes that Sheehan's book can be confusing due to the sheer amount of details needed to understand the situation but that it is important to know the nature of the tragedy and hypocrisy of America's colonialist and imperialist ("anticommunist") enterprise in Vietnam.
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