But while the illegal actions of a few soldiers were used to discredit the entire war effort, the same critics ignored the systematic, policy-driven slaughter of innocents perpetrated by America’s enemies. In the South Vietnamese city of Hue, more than 5,000 civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered intentionally by communist forces during the Tet Offensive. But the tragedy at Hue became merely a footnote to the war. The anti-war left set about denying the event took place, and the mainstream media, so fixated on My Lai, gave the Hue massacre barely a mention.
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