(Posted by John.)

via Atrios and a bunch of other people, you really do need to read this Harpers piece about the age-old Republican fetish for blaming the people who either won the war (in the case of WWII and Yalta) or who had no power over the end of it (Vietnam.)

Some longish thoughts below.

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