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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Ultra-Liberal CTers Are Outraged Over New Book on JFK and Vietnam
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Today at 12:33:53 PM »Investigative journalist Jack Cheevers' new book Kennedy's Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent into Vietnam has many ultra-liberal JFKA conspiracy theorists in an uproar.
This is a bit ironic because Cheevers is no rock-ribbed conservative. His book repeats some of the standard liberal falsehoods about the Vietnam War (that Diem was losing the war effort at the time he was murdered, that Diem's government was behind the May 8 "massacre," that Diem treated Buddhists unfairly, etc.).
Cheevers' sin in the eyes of many ultra-liberals is that he (entirely correctly) argues that JFK's decision to green-light the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem was not only a failure of leadership but an enormous disaster for the war effort. Cheevers also argues that the disastrous coup led to greater U.S. involvement after the assassination.
When a book on JFK and the Vietnam War receives praise from all across the spectrum, from National Review to H. R. McMaster to Max Boot to Christopher Goscha, as Cheevers' book has received, you know it must be a credible work of scholarship.
But, not to the ultra-liberal camp of the JFKA research community. To them, the book is a "hatchet job" (Chad Nagle).
This is a bit ironic because Cheevers is no rock-ribbed conservative. His book repeats some of the standard liberal falsehoods about the Vietnam War (that Diem was losing the war effort at the time he was murdered, that Diem's government was behind the May 8 "massacre," that Diem treated Buddhists unfairly, etc.).
Cheevers' sin in the eyes of many ultra-liberals is that he (entirely correctly) argues that JFK's decision to green-light the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem was not only a failure of leadership but an enormous disaster for the war effort. Cheevers also argues that the disastrous coup led to greater U.S. involvement after the assassination.
When a book on JFK and the Vietnam War receives praise from all across the spectrum, from National Review to H. R. McMaster to Max Boot to Christopher Goscha, as Cheevers' book has received, you know it must be a credible work of scholarship.
But, not to the ultra-liberal camp of the JFKA research community. To them, the book is a "hatchet job" (Chad Nagle).
