To: GOPJ
Old Ho was no fool. He knew the possibility of the U.S. helping the French and he was trying to cover his ass and keep that from happening. It almost came about by way of Operation Vulture which was to rescue the French at Dien Bien Phu by way of bombing the Viet Minh and with a possible option to use nukes. Eisenhower dropped the plan when he couldn’t get the Brits who had ousted Churchill as PM. If he had still been PM he might have agreed to the coalition and the history of VN and SEA might have been very different.
17 posted on
07/26/2013 11:24:57 AM PDT by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: RJS1950
...Operation Vulture which was to rescue the French at Dien Bien Phu by way of bombing the Viet Minh and with a possible option to use nukes. Eisenhower dropped the plan when he couldnt get the Brits who had ousted Churchill as PM. If he had still been PM he might have agreed to the coalition and the history of VN and SEA might have been very different. If that had happened, the turmoil of the 60’s would never have happened...
21 posted on
07/26/2013 2:53:52 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(Democrat dream: An America for everyone but Americans... freeper molson209)
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