I have thousands of books, thank you, Truman did not start the Vietnam war, nor did Eisenhower. In fact my book reading is what made me recall reading of American interest and active monitoring in Vietnam, before 1945, which is why in post 24, posting form memory, I said “”At the time, after decades of playing it low key and staying out of war in Vietnam””.
JFK got us “into” Vietnam.
home from work...what a nice suprise...stylin19 gets hammered.
I am in no way shape or form a JFK apologist.
let me see If I have this straight.
- Truman sends the OSS into Indochina.
- The first US indadvertent US casualty is an OSS agent who recommends the US stay away from this stink hole.
- in the early 50’s the US sets up a Military Command in Indochina
- Ho-Chi-Mihn begs the US for any kind of help vs. the French and is blithely ignored.
- The US doesn’t sign-on to the Geneva Accord at least in part because of unification.
- The CIA drops millions of “Mary has moved south” leaflets in Operation Passage to Freedom, further dividing the country
- Eisenhower send advisers and equipment.
- JFK sends more advisors, who by this time are covertly involved in being shooting advisors.
- We establish a puppet regime to stop a unification vote and we eventually are complicit in Diem’s murder.
- JFK approves a National Security Memorandum recommendation to authorize the withdrawal 1000 advisers by the end of 1963.
- LBJ gets a resolution for a shooting war in that shit-hole based on a bullsh$t tip and 58k plus are on “The Wall”
and JFK got us into VietNam ?
Paleeze.......