You referring to Mark Steyn, for example, at The Spectator?
"Cian">...Adam Garfinkle (who he?) http://www.nssg.gov/About_Us/People/Study_Group_Staff/Adam_Garfinkle/adam_garfinkle.htm
Read a book of Garfinkle's, "Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, " a few yrs. ago, He works at FPRI, a conservastive think tank, that publishes Orbis, http://www.fpri.org/orbis/
http://www.google.com/search?q=Telltale+Hearts+Garfinkle was chosen as one of the New York Times Book Review's NOTABLE BOOKS OF 1995. ... www.discovermilitaryhistory.com/military2/0312125208AMUS263923.shtml http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/fpri/winning.htmlconcurrently, (yup, the sci-fi novelist) http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/antiwar.html http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9603/public.html
Vietnam War Bibliography::The Antiwar Movement by Edwin Moise a major source for Gabriel Kolko, http://www.thenewpress.com/books/anatomy.htm , "Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience."
with Tom Well's left-liberal acct. of same, from U.C. Press. Both are base oon externsive archival research and are quite readable. The Garfinkle concludes with a chapter on the anti-war movement in the period of the Gulf War of '91 and usefully reviews the split in the movement between the IAC led coalition and the left-liberal-pacifist sector that supported sanctions.
Another book, I read at the same time, which is also heavily sourced, which focuses more narrowly on the American intelligentsia and the Vietnam War, is in pb., " Apocalypse Then: American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Had a few quibbles over his framework, but, well worth a read. ". http://www.google.com/search?q=Tomes+Vietnam+War
This is more than just another book about the Vietnam War: Robert R.Tomes offers an intellectual history of the war on the home front. ... www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/86.3/br_92.html (You have to sub to the JAH to read the review.) Michael Pugliese