I apprciate your recollection of present and post chief executives in a shade of dark grey I, in my senior years, have air brushed. The quotes you example in this 16 minute essay seem to have been deleted from my memory. Thanks for the recall. Such shits, all of them.
Given the "official" reason for going to Vietnam, which was to stop the dreaded "domino effect" should the Vietnamese decide to go with the Communists; those 57/58000 troops we lost, we're lost for EXACTLY NOTHING!!!, since the Vietnamese decided to go with the communists--and guess what? It didn't affect us in any way! In fact we decided to accept them as favored traders despite the fact that the entire nation was now communistic. Try explaining that to the students of history (before it gets any more distorted by the propagandists)
The link for how the US peace movement stopped Nixon (and Kissinger) from using nuclear weapons in Vietnam: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/movement-and-madman/
Paul,
I apprciate your recollection of present and post chief executives in a shade of dark grey I, in my senior years, have air brushed. The quotes you example in this 16 minute essay seem to have been deleted from my memory. Thanks for the recall. Such shits, all of them.
Cheers
https://vietnamembassy-usa.org/relations/whatever-mr-kerrey-said-can-not-change-truth-thanh-phong
Given the "official" reason for going to Vietnam, which was to stop the dreaded "domino effect" should the Vietnamese decide to go with the Communists; those 57/58000 troops we lost, we're lost for EXACTLY NOTHING!!!, since the Vietnamese decided to go with the communists--and guess what? It didn't affect us in any way! In fact we decided to accept them as favored traders despite the fact that the entire nation was now communistic. Try explaining that to the students of history (before it gets any more distorted by the propagandists)