{"id":29706,"date":"2017-09-23T02:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T02:20:58","slug":"the-only-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/the-only-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-vietnam-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The <I>Only<\/I> Thing You Need To Know About &#8216;The Vietnam War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>The Vietnam War<\/em>&#8221; began airing on PBS this week.<\/p>\n<p>But, besides the fact it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/03\/maybe-this-time-the-law-does-matter\/\">was not legally a &#8220;war,&#8221;<\/a> <strong>THIS<\/strong> \u2013 directly from the lips of Vietnam &#8220;War&#8221; U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara \u2013  is the only thing you need to know about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Mr. McNamara, didn&#8217;t you ever read a history book?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/149799416\"> \u2013 The Fog of War<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. Government &#039;ditched out&#039; on Vietnam homework\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bl8wpsGooOo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Vietnam War&#8221; began airing on PBS this week. But, besides the fact it was not legally a &#8220;war,&#8221; THIS \u2013 directly from the lips of Vietnam &#8220;War&#8221; U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara \u2013 is the only thing you need to know about it&#8230; &#8220;Mr. McNamara, didn&#8217;t you ever read a history book?&#8221; \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29706"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29717,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions\/29717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}