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To: unclewest who wrote (463926)1/7/2012 3:40:03 PM
From: Hoa Hao1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 793900
 
Boy is that a loaded article!! One wonders what would have happened in Vietnam if Nixon had won in 1960 and had continued Ike's policies regarding defence and the cold war. Generals Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor and James Gavin resigned to protest the Eisenhower administration's "new look," military. I should still have "The Uncertain Trumpet" from Taylor around somewhere.

Kennedy pumped up the conventional army and had the troops to go into Vietnam. Ike wouldn't have had the men to do it.

The initial losses in Korea was just as much MacArthur's fault for letting the troops in Japan get soft and fat. Ike got credit for finally getting an armistice by threatening nuclear war as I recall. He also sent in SF "Hotfoot" into Laos in 1955 and planned to defend SE Asia through Thailand into Laos using Thai troops backed with US fire power.

Was Kennedy so anti Thai cause he was Catholic that he shunned them and went for S Vietnam instead?? He signs a neutrality treaty regarding Laos which the NVA totally ignore.

UW, I think you've been critical of our strategic conduct in the current involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 10 years do you think that Iraq and Afghanistan will have friendly governments?? We build up big conventional land forces but our use of them does not seem to get us victory.

Maybe Ike's "Massive retaliation" had more merit then we give him credit for.
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