Unbelievable
Harry Krause wrote:
Doug Kanter wrote:
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Great! The suits who invented the domino theory knew by the
late 1960s that it was nonsense, and that's what the entire
war was based on. All presidents are the target of various
so-called scholars and shmexperts. Many of us figured out
early on that the North Vietnamese were not going to burn
their way through the south and invade Australia next. Do you
remember this nonsense?
Doug, you are chanting a typical shallow and simplistic post
mortem of a very complex set of circumstances, alliances, and
political commitments that took place over many years, mired also
in corruption. In the end it came down to justifying the
continuance of policies that weren't working or were no longer
purposeful.
If you simply believe it was all based on the "domino" theory,
then it was you that was duped.
RCE
Like the other two personal wars, it was based on weak presidents
who succumbed to bad advice, thus demonstrating their complete
inability to manage and think for themselves.
So, as it relates to Vietnam, your list of weak Presidents must
include:
Harry S Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kenney
Lyndon Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald Ford
and, then, to make everything "ok"
Jimmy Carter.
RCE
Grow up.
Good grief.
RCE
Bert is attempting to say that because Truman authorized the OSS to
poke around SE Asia as "advisors" after WWII, he's in the same
category as Johnson, who clearly made the largest committment to the
Vietnam mistake. He's saying pretty much the same thing for Eisenhower
& Kennedy.
Bert was slow before he joined the M-A-R-I-N-E-S.
Thanks for thinking of me!
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