Monday, March 5, 2018

If he was so smart................"all the answers McNamara"...........and the reason the US gov stated at the time..............was to help South Vietnam.........to stop the spread of communism...............if that wasn't the reason............what was it?  Why would someone supposedly so smart............need additional qualifications.......................b/c what additional qualifications could the man have needed..........IF the real reason was stopping the spread of communism.........

And IF that was not the real reason..........what was????????



Vietnam War: Was US Military Intervention in Vietnam Justified? - Gale

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Jump to Viewpoint: Yes, U.S. military intervention in Vietnam was in keeping ... - Indeed, the strategic policies and military tactics employed by the Johnson administration under the direction of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara did little to take the necessary steps to win the war or to stabilize South Vietnam ...

Thoughts Engendered by Robert McNamara's In Retrospect(1) - CIA

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May 8, 2007 - Also, these policymakers mistakenly deemed world Communism a monolith, the Vietnam war one of its facets; therefore, contrary to the intent of our containment policy's author, George Kennan, they felt we had to make a stand against Communism everywhere. Thus, by the time the Johnson administration ...

No Way to Win: The Vietnam War and the Tragedy of Containment

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The doctrine of containment argued that all-out war should be avoided, but the US should pledge itself to stopping any new communist governments, or preventing any ... Few arguments about the Vietnam war, concluded the writer Nguyen Ba Chung, "take into account all aspects of Vietnam's two thousand year history of ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War

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But LBJ was equally committed to winning the fight against the Communist insurgency in Vietnam—a fight that Kennedy had joined during his thousand days in ... foreign policy credentials also contributed to Johnson's reliance on figures such as Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and ...

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