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Ya know it's funny that yer moniker is "risk" with regards to this thread. I am of the opinion that polidiots were playing just that game with us as the game pieces.......

Stay safe !!

It's a moniker I often regret choosing, but puns keep coming. After reading the Rescorla story, I realized that a lot of you Vietnam vets were more patriotic than the WWII variety "save the world or else" draftees and volunteers. A lot of you guys knew you were just game pieces, but you went (or stayed after figuring it out) anyway. On some level, it must have amazed the VC's handlers back in Moscow. It put meaning back into the phrase "Come and Take Them." I don't put much stock in the JBS, but Susan Huck shreds the American elite in her Vietnam Falls: it's time to establish responsibility article. I see the JBS has taken it offline. If Halberstam skewers the elite from the left in Best and the Brightest, Huck skewers them there from the far right. I'm sure that they deserve both. Of course their direct academic descendants are the cultural relativists, Marxist feminists, and post-structuralists of today. I just shake my head when I realize that McNamara basically killed our missile defense program until President Reagan was elected, but I digress.

Ya know it's funny that yer moniker is "risk" with regards to this thread. I am of the opinion that polidiots were playing just that game with us as the game pieces.......

I'm persuaded that LBJ escalated our involvement in Vietnam because he thought that was required to play "RISK" in Southeast Asia in order to get the "GREAT SOCIETY" passed in Congress. He thought he could parlay with the VC and the commies in North Vietnam. Besides being fooled by those commies, LBJ was unable to appreciate the geographical difference between fighting a war on the Korean Peninsula, and a war in Vietnam with the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" going through Laos and Cambodia.

Check out Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss. Here's a link.