I don’t know why people keep picking on LBJ.
I guess it is the same as Nixon. They like to beat a dead horse.
LBJ was advised that given the current situation the previous administration had left him, no matter what, we would lose. More soldiers would die and nothing would change.
LBJ got tired of seeing dead soldiers coming home. And I mean personally seeing dead soldiers coming home.
LBJ made the mistake that all central planners do and that was to take the military decisions out of the Pentagon and made them at the WH. That is what cost us the war and LBJ was the reason. Hussain is doing the same thing only he is going to run and leave the Afghanis to die.
Pray for America and Our Troops
LBJs plan was to develop a Korean style truce with the US maintaining permanent bases in Viet Nam. Here's why I think this:
First, if you look at a world map, at the time the US had naval bases in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, friendly docking spaces in Australia, Indonesia, the middle east and land bases in Eastern Europe. With the exception of Viet Nam, we had them totally surrounded. Brown and Root dug five deep water ports in Viet Nam. If we were simply engaged in a police action, there was no need for deep water ports, especially not five. Deep water ports are built to create permanent bases for big naval vessels or for commerce.
Most military plans are obvious if you read a map. Take a look at the "War on Terror." We know where most of the operational funding for terrorism is coming from. The agents are spread out all over the world, but without funding, they're impotent. We tolerate the Saudis because war isn't always ideological. You make deals with people because it's in your best interest, not because they're nice guys. Our first thrust was Afghanistan, our second, Iraq. There are various other initiatives that aren't being reported, but these are too big to keep secret. What's in between these two countries? Iran. Obama will capitulate, so the plan is over, but I know exactly where Bush and Cheney were planning to go before popular support was knocked down and the action became impossible. There's a reason so much Arab oil money went into buying interests in the US press.
Powerful foreign interests use the US press for propaganda purposes, and have since the early sixties. Prior to that, the press was just as slanted, but for the US. The NY Times has, of course, supported the Marxists forever. Remember the Times was the paper that denied the existence of the death camps in Russia during Stalin's purge. The two big contributors to the US press are the marxists and the Islamists. The US continually engages in covert actions in South America, but there are no South American agents putting moles and money into the US press, so, there is no reason for the press to expose or oppose these operations. The press screams the loudest when the operations are damaging the people that are providing their funding; the marxists and the Islamists.