Petraeus and Vietnam

To address mild criticisms here and here, the point of digging up Petraeus' Ph.D. thesis was that it seemed likely that a 300-plus page Ph.D. thesis from Princeton called The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in the Post-Vietnam Era might tell us whether or not its author agrees with George Bush's stab-in-the-back Vietnam comparison. Anything it tells us about Petraeus the human being is, I suppose, ancillary. Obviously there are any number of important questions I'd like to ask Petraeus if I had the chance and a bottle of truth serum. But lacking that sort of access, I thought it worth pointing out that his endless thesis about the Vietnam War says nothing about whether the conservative rhetoric in its aftermath was legitimate.