Before quag met mire.(books, arts & manners)(Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965)(Book review) From: National Review | Date: November 20, 2006| Author: Robbins, James S. | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, by Mark Moyar (Cambridge, 542 pp., $32)

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COMPARING the Iraq War to Vietnam is a staple of Bush-administration critics. The purpose of the analogy is to arouse a sense of defeat by degrees. This is possible because of the dominant analytical paradigm about Vietnam, which casts the conflict as an unjust war undertaken for questionable if not fraudulent reasons, poorly and immorally executed. It...

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