[Governor Dinwiddie]

[SaveFerris]

Some intresting things on Wiki (well, it’s Wiki, so FWIW)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#Actual_objective_of_the_Vietnam_War:_Containment_of_China

McNamara accused China of harboring imperial aspirations like those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. According to McNamara, the Chinese were conspiring to “organize all of Asia” against the United States:

China—like Germany in 1917, like Germany in the West and Japan in the East in the late 30s, and like the USSR in 1947—looms as a major power threatening to undercut our importance and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against us.[17]

To encircle the Chinese, the United States aimed to establish “three fronts” as part of a “long-run effort to contain China”:

There are three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China (realizing that the USSR “contains” China on the north and northwest):

(a) the Japan–Korea front;

(b) the India–Pakistan front; and

(c) the Southeast Asia front.[17]

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I’m sure China had no influence on the 2020 elections. /s

[SaveFerris]

Some intresting things on Wiki (well, it’s Wiki, so FWIW)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#Actual_objective_of_the_Vietnam_War:_Containment_of_China

McNamara accused China of harboring imperial aspirations like those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. According to McNamara, the Chinese were conspiring to “organize all of Asia” against the United States:

China—like Germany in 1917, like Germany in the West and Japan in the East in the late 30s, and like the USSR in 1947—looms as a major power threatening to undercut our importance and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against us.[17]

To encircle the Chinese, the United States aimed to establish “three fronts” as part of a “long-run effort to contain China”:

There are three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China (realizing that the USSR “contains” China on the north and northwest):

(a) the Japan–Korea front;

(b) the India–Pakistan front; and

(c) the Southeast Asia front.[17]

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I’m sure China had no influence on the 2020 elections. /s

[dfwgator]

All he did was weaken a country.

[Widget Jr]

I learned of Sheehan by reading the The Arnheiter Affair. Lt. Cmdr. Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter had a interesting 99 day command of the USS Vance during Vietnam. Before he was relieved for being out of control.

[Zhang Fei]

I read A Bright Shining Lie back in the day. It looked at the Vietnam War through the experiences of a MACV advisor.

https://www.historynet.com/john-paul-vann-man-and-legend.htm

[a fool in paradise]

“Obtained”

[\/\/ayne]

Supposedly this song was about Neil Sheehan and the Pentagon Papers incident.

Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

[a fool in paradise]

Bit different than how the media treats the exposure of the DNC-MSM 2016 election corruption emails.

[Fiji Hill]

Sheehan was in an ongoing quarrel with fellow war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, author of Our Vietnam Nightmare (1965) who supported the war until her death from an illness she contracted in Vietnam.