home from work...what a nice suprise...stylin19 gets hammered.
I am in no way shape or form a JFK apologist.
let me see If I have this straight.
- Truman sends the OSS into Indochina.
- The first US indadvertent US casualty is an OSS agent who recommends the US stay away from this stink hole.
- in the early 50’s the US sets up a Military Command in Indochina
- Ho-Chi-Mihn begs the US for any kind of help vs. the French and is blithely ignored.
- The US doesn’t sign-on to the Geneva Accord at least in part because of unification.
- The CIA drops millions of “Mary has moved south” leaflets in Operation Passage to Freedom, further dividing the country
- Eisenhower send advisers and equipment.
- JFK sends more advisors, who by this time are covertly involved in being shooting advisors.
- We establish a puppet regime to stop a unification vote and we eventually are complicit in Diem’s murder.
- JFK approves a National Security Memorandum recommendation to authorize the withdrawal 1000 advisers by the end of 1963.
- LBJ gets a resolution for a shooting war in that shit-hole based on a bullsh$t tip and 58k plus are on “The Wall”
and JFK got us into VietNam ?
Paleeze.......
That was my point.
To anyone but a JFK apologist, 20 plus years of interest and watching over in Vietnam, and having a handful of spies and Special Forces type, was not being in a war, then came the hopped up JFK pumping in 16,000 troops and increasing involvement and taking out Diem and then he became the boob who “got us into Vietnam”.
If your man had not stolen the 1960 election, then no Vietnam war.