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hoolstoptheheels

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You should invest the time to watch this. It’s chilling.


You’ll come to JFK himself on tape more or less refuting this. LBJ too. Not to mention Nixon. All the presidents of the war - they’re on tape indicating they know they’re in an unwinnable meatgrinder of a quagmire that was just grinding young Americans and Vietnamese down to the bone. In other words, you just recounted fairly well the public statements these admins were trying to craft, but which didn’t match what they already knew. They feared political backlash, and even jfk already knew they were throwing good money, and good young lives, after bad.

Just couldn’t see a way out without damaging their re-election chances. It’s hard to tell a mom that her kid died so I’d have an easier re-election campaign. So they use flowery language like that. Which would not have stood up to the scrutiny of history very well.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 11/22/2023 10:14AM]

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Link: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/


Posted: 11/22/2023 at 10:13AM



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