Check the Pentagon Papers. I read it a long time ago, and it’s just one small section, but it said very definitely that JFK ordered the assassination.
The ruling classes in Vietnam at that time tended to be Catholic, because it had been a French Colony. I didn’t say that I favored the Catholics over the Buddhists. I said that JFK was extremely reluctant to be thought of as a Catholic, because it cost him too many votes. He barely got elected, by cheating in Texas and Chicago, and he had to demonstrate to doubters of the time that he wasn’t going to turn America over to the Pope, as some of his opponents charged. And what set off the final crisis was when a Buddhist Monk poured gasoline over himself and burned himself to death as a protest against Diem.
JFK was far more worried about his own reputation than he was about our troops in Vietnam. That is the point I was making.
It does not say that. You claimed it and its wrong. Its on you to prove it, not on me to hunt for something that isn’t there. JFK did not order Diems assassination.
From what I see, the Buddhists were communist, and had very legitimate position against the Diem crowd that was corrupt beyond belief. And of course the ruling class was Catholic, it was a former French colony.
It just seems unreasonable that it should run as a French colony did, with the majority Buddhists being under the thumb of the minority who gained position via the French.
JFK is the one who put our troops into Vietnam.
For decades we had had a few advisers and men there we were there in WWII, never more than a few hundred, but JFK pumped in 16,000 troops.