LBJ's Secret War

Washington Post ^ | 12/01/2001 | Michael Beschloss

[liberallarry]

You always seem to find the good ones before me, Pokey. Great post. I really like Michael Beschloss.
Here's a recommendation for a description of pretty much the same situation during an earlier war;

"Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-25" by Barbara Tuchman.

[onedoug]

TFTF, TGYC.

Good one re Ho. He didn't reach US shores, I think more than twice,
yet always seemed to concetrate on the negative therefrom.

He sure seemed to get along with Archimedes Patti, though.

[onedoug]

Sorry, it was you, too, I meant to ping above.

[Elihu Burritt]

Ho was another one like Bin Laden that we first set up in business. We originally backed against the Japanesse. He was practically the only Vietnamese we could find interested in the job. Only later did we cut him loose in favor of sending back the French to their pre-war colony.

He was pre-occupied a bit with the KKK and studies a lot of our history in areas we don't pay much attention to.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"We were wrongfully blamed for the loss of that war, and were scapegoats for waaaaaaaaaay too many years!
It would be nice to hear John Q. Public say "We were wrong for what we did", but I don't think that will happen."

It still bothers me that Nixon could have won this war.
But he blamed Congress and the media while he and Kissenger made their secret deals
with Red China to open trade with them.
Then Nixon "quit" the war and Americans to this day still blame all of "us" instead of him.

[onedoug]

Though always trying to remember the All that so many others gave,
I'm yet grateful for the greatest adventure of my life. Which in returning to,
I sensed the circle more continuous than closed. That which I hopefully suspect
will continue too, till mortality at last overwhelms me.

Sunday best to you guys.