Was it wrong to send troops to Vietnam? No, says Kenneth Gee, despite public reconsiderations by some of those involved.General Cosgrove, who fought in Vietnam, now doubts whether Australia should have been there. Malcolm Fraser also now believes that the Vietnam War had been misguided.This is understandable, since the United States, in its bungled defence of the South against the communist attack, allowed itself to be defeated by Hanoi and its allies – “the great socialist rear” – and nobo…
