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One of those myths is championed by Fredrik Logevall in Choosing War . That's the idea of "missed opportunities" for a peace settlement before the American buildup in 1965.
From late 1963 to early 1965, Logevall claims, the Johnson administration faced a deliberate choice about whether it should raise or lower the stakes in Vietnam: Make it an all-out test of will, which it became, or look for an excuse to leave--perhaps with the claim that the regime in the South had become too ill-behaved to be worth further U.S. support or lives.
* I've also just been reading Fredrik Logevall's Choosing War , a new academic history that argues more or less the exact opposite of Lind's case.
I'll simply say that if Lind proves that the decision to go to war was understandable, Logevall provides the argument for the "minimal realist" view that it was unnecessary and unwise.
Logevall's evidence is beyond my ability to introduce here.