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One of the things we were told about Vietnam was that if the place went under to the Communists, there would be an orgy of recriminations, of the sort that followed the fall of China. Regrettably, this has not occurred.

That it should occur, and at the earliest possible moment, is the theme of Louis Fanning’s Betrayal in Vietnam (Arlington House, $8.95). Professor Fanning, who teaches history at the State University of New York in Farmingdale, gives us a blow-by-blow chronology of the disaster in Indochina, as liberal Democrats of the Kennedy-Johnson period marched us into a no-win war, increased the level of U.S. forces on the treadmill, then washed their hands of the whole affair as public opinion tired of endless combat and upheaval on the homefront.

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One of the things we were told about Vietnam was that if the place went under to the Communists, there would be an orgy of recriminations, of the sort that followed the fall of China. Regrettably, this has not occurred.

That it should occur, and at the earliest possible moment, is the theme of Louis Fanning’s Betrayal in Vietnam (Arlington House, $8.95). Professor Fanning, who teaches history at the State University of New York in Farmingdale, gives us a blow-by-blow chronology of the disaster in Indochina, as liberal Democrats of the Kennedy-Johnson period marched us into a no-win war, increased the level of U.S. forces on the treadmill, then washed their hands of the whole affair as public opinion tired of endless combat and upheaval on the homefront.