[lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Wed May 25 08:35:03 PDT 2005


On 5/24/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:Tailwind was looking for NLF and US deserters in the more remote villages along the Cambodian, Laotian and Thai borders.

Oh Leigh. Jerry Lembcke, CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 256 pp. Book Description Jerry Lembcke delves into the origins of CNN's 1998 story about U.S. soldiers in Vietnam using nerve gas on defectors and how it came to be believed, not only by those who told it, but by news reporters and the public. In his investigation, Lembcke shows that the myth of Operation Tailwind originated in the fiction of popular culture, the unreliability of memory, and the conspiracy-minded, ultra-Right wing, fundamentalist Christian community.

-- Michael Pugliese



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