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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (16642)	10/8/2007 4:49:13 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Kennedy planned to withdraw from Viet Nam As did every single American government official and foreign policy intellectual. Ahem... I beg to differ. I just finished reading Pr Randall Woods' amazing, 884-pages biography on Lyndon Baines Johnson: LBJ - Architect of American Ambition and, I must say, it's been an exhilarating revelation to me: the period is crucial --1950s and 1960s America (of course, the bio starts in the 1850s with a backgrounder on LBJ's grandparents). Not all US politicians favored a break and a quick exit out of Vietnam --remember Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, Richard Russel, Strom Thurmond, and even Richard Nixon... they were all hawks who deemed the LBJ administration TOO SOFT in the global crusade against Communism, against the Vietcong, etc. Some of them even called for using tactical nuclear weapons against North Vietnam... As far as JFK was concerned, he didn't have the opportunity to think about a withdrawal from Vietnam because he'd been assassinated BEFORE the buildup of US troops itself! Remember that it all escalated with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Pleiku false-flag provocation --under LBJ's presidency. From 1965 on, the issue for the US administration was "victory" or "honorable retreat"... Finally, Woods' LBJ bio clearly illuminates the connection between the US homefront and LBJ's Great Society and the Vietnam war: somehow, the war and the killings in Vietnam was to price the US liberals had to pay for desegregration and civil rights at home... Again, remember that, from conservatives' and law enforcement (FBI/Hoover)'s viewpoint, civil rights leaders/activists were but a bunch of COMMUNISTS --they were branded as America's homemade Vietcong!! Gus