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Article: Lieutenant-General Cosgrove and the born-again Vietnam protesters.
- Article from:
- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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The timing of Australian Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant-General Peter Cosgrove's foray into the field of history, by criticizing Australia's participation in the Vietnam War that ended decades ago, is unfortunate. His revaluation came amidst three distinctive moves by others, not only to give respectability to those who protested against the war a generation ago, but also aim to make the opinions they held into mainstream, politically correct beliefs for the coming century, marginalising research-based scholarly accounts, and attacking and isolating scholars who failed to endorse their beliefs, in the same way as they and their research findings were discounted by ...