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Ben Tre
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Bến Tre pronunciation (
help·
info) or
Kampong Russey in Khmer is a town in the
Mekong Delta area of southern
Vietnam. It is the capital of
Bến Tre Province.
[edit] Vietnam War
One of the most famous quotes of the
Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an anonymous American major by
AP correspondent
Peter Arnett. Writing about the provincial capital, Ben Tre, on
February 7,
1968, Arnett said: "'it became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a U.S. major says." To this day, "Ben Tre Logic" is a common saying for whenever a "logical" conclusion is to destroy something out of the perceived best interests of everyone involved. In his book
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and History, author B. G. Burkett claims that Arnett had fabricated the quote. According to Arnett, U.S. forces destroyed the village of Bến Tre during the
Tet Offensive. Burkett found that Bến Tre, as a provincial capital in the populous south, was not a village, but would be best described as a very large town or small city. He also discovered that the city was not destroyed, but was heavily damaged when the
Viet Cong indiscriminately fired artillery into the city during the Tet Offensive.
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