[gitmogrunt]

In October 1964, LBJ, president for less than a year, promised that Vietnam’s civil war would not become our burden.

“We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves,” Johnson famously declared.

WTF??

[Billthedrill]

That’s the one that made him un-electable in ‘68. By then he and McNamara were sticking pins into maps in the White House to order up bombing missions. If I wrote what I think about that I’d be banned.