re: What was the feeling of helping Vietnam at the time at the start of the war?

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Neither JFK nor LBJ wanted to be the president who "lost" Vietnam, fearing it would trigger political suicide at home and project weakness to the Soviets globally. The real threat was the western political left winged apparatus that framed the Vietnam War not merely as a localized Cold War conflict, but as an unjust, imperialist intervention against a sovereign nation seeking self-determination, which was the real threat on the home front.

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You aren't wrong, but you also have to factor in that there was a draft, and deferments were being handed out to the children of the elite. The men that were being sent there against their will were mostly black and poor whites. And the perception was that they were fighting and dying in order for the MIC to profit.

There was no existential threat to the US like there had been in WWII.

That stirred up a lot of domestic opposition, especially among young people.

I'm currently reading a book on Lyndon Johnson's White House years and he definitely wasn't a war hawk, but he had plenty of Lindsey Grahams and John Boltons in his administration that were and they basically steered him into it. Should have just pulled out the small contingent that Kennedy had put over there and left it alone. I know hindsight is always 20/20, but the South Vietnamese leadership was very sketchy in the beginning anyway, so it made no sense for us to be working over there.

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Vietnam became the first “televised war.” The national media was showing combat footage each evening, inserting their own opinions into the matter, and was giving a weekly body count. That turned a lot of Americans off on the war.

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I was a young teen then. I watched the evening news every night. My recollection is the body count was daily.

Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) called for the USA to come to the military assistance of a nation in danger of attack by communism. Bascially the treaty was put in place to stop the spread of communism. Just like NATO.

In August 1964 our pal Lyndon Johnson instigated the Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify expanding the ground force presence in Viet Nam. That did the trick, the Viet Nam War resulted. When the war finally ended 58,200 of our finest young men were dead. And many Viet Nam Veterans are still dying from exposure to Agent Orange.

Lyndon Johnson was not only a morally bankrupt individual but a scheming,corrupt manipulative politician as well. Seems to be a defining trait of democrat Presidents beginning with the Johnson era. Under democrat leadership America is for sale.

So Lyndon Johnson plunged us into the Viet Nam War - which we eventually lost. In addition to engaging in sex with a female aid in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton's claim to fame is that he sent his Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary to negotiate the handing over of our super computer and nuclear warhead miniaturization technology to Chyna in exchange for $$$. War head and super computer technology Chyna shared with their ally North Korea.(hint: we have to assume that technology is in Iran's possession). So at this present moment North Korean ICBM's with those miniaturized nuke warheads are pointed at the United States. Then in an absurd moment of white guilt America elected Barook Hussein Obama - America's first Islamo-Marxist President. Mentored by the avowed Communist Frank Marshall Davis - his claim to fame is that he opened the immigration gate to legions of Islamic migrants. The Islamics quickly set about building mosque......lots of mosque and outbreeding the infidels. They are now focused on building muslim cities governed by Sharia Law. Their pal Zohran Mamdani is now the mayor of New York City - a city that saw the horrors of 9/11. Do not deceive yourself - Islam is at war with America.

And last but not least the mafia democrats exploited the Covid-19 Pandemic to steal the Presidency in 2020 from Donald Trump and install the buffoon Joe Biden as President. Joe Biden has continued the democrat obsession with Chyna. Recently we learned that many of the columnist in major newspapers in this country are on the ChiCom payroll - as are the talking heads at CNN, CBS, NBC, and to a lesser extent - ABC. All these talking heads, these columnist are paid to do one thing - trash President Trump.

My concern has always been the acquisiton of nukes by rogue nations. And right now, my biggest fear is Iran. They have the enriched uranium, they've tested a version of an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). People forget they fired two of those missiles at our bases in Europe. One missile failed in flight and the other one was shot down by American anti-ballistic defense system.

President Trump is engaged in diplomacy with Iran with the threat of resumption of a bombing campaign. Above all he's trying to avoid having to commit ground forces in Iran (thanks to Viet Nam we can't deferientiate a legitimate need to commit ground troops from a false one). I believe Iran is stalling, waiting, scheming, and somewhere in a deep underground bunker they're putting the finishing touches on a nuclear bomb. Then they'll merge the thing with their version of an ICBM and point it at the USA then tell Donald Trump to stop the bombing or else.

IMO all we need for a global nuclear war is for America to hand power back to the mafia democrats. If they win in November, the first thing they will do is impeach President Trump and that scares me. You cringe? FACT, democrats make war and some Republicans sell us out.

Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.

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One of my sickest stomachs learning that all those people died for nothing…but for Nixon’s power quests.

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Nixon, who was not in any office when our first boots on the ground came 5 years after he was defeated by Kennedy, is to blame for the people that died over there.... not Kennedy or LBJ?