[Vaquero]

"President Johnson should learn to use his power and should hit North Vietnam hard," said General Marjadi in explaining why American inaction was discouraging the generals from taking a firm anticommunist position. "The prize for victory in Vietnam is all of Asia. Asia respects power, and has no respect for weakness or for strong people afraid to act." Indonesian generals later said that US intervention inspired them to oust Sukarno and work to destroy the Indonesian Communist Party in late 1965.

those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it

[Redbob]

"those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it"

And sad to say, those U.S. Presidents hailing from Texas have generally been dullards.

Pres. Johnson being a shining example of such.

[Libertina]

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