[markomalley]

Full title: President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted to Avoid An Anarchy

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Since Sodomite "marriage" has been deemed the successor to the civil rights movement </barf>, I wonder how long it will take until we see this headline again (maybe in Austin or Baton Rouge this time, rather than Little Rock)?

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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Pretty obvious why Blacks have not progressed as a whole. They don’t know who their friends are.

[Bluewater2015]

The people in Arkansas should have called the troops bluff. It is extremely difficult to get regular Army troops, recruited from the population at large, to fire on civilians. If the Arkansas authority simply ignored the troops, and block the students anyhow, the troops would have been in a real quandary. They'd have to use force to stop them. But they couldn't bring themselves to fire on their own people. So it would have been something of a checkmate. Here's an example. In 1962, bread riots broke out in the Rostov region of the USSR. The police were unable to stop it. So regular Soviet army troops were brought in. They sided with the rioters! Ethnic Kazakh troops from the Interior Ministry had to be brought in to suppress the riots. A text case in military psychology. Besides, what President in his right mind wants a mini civil war on the 6:30 news. And imagine how the Soviets would have played the story in the Third World. Alas what might have been.

[Nextrush]

JFK used Little Rock all over the South in 1960 making
a pledge not to send federal troops in future situations, but he did commit federal marshals and when that failed to stop violence at Oxford, MS to enroll James Meredith at Ole Miss, 20-thousand plus US Military were committed to Northern MS.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Mariner]

Today few would argue that Eisenhower did the wrong thing.

What edifies us now is the knowledge that the National Guard is a militia under the control of the Governor.

The truth is that the National Guard is under the control of POTUS and the Governor has access.

[ansel12]

[BlueDragon]

This has nothing to do with Eisenhower sending the National Guard to Little Rock (which was a really big deal when that happened)

...but check out the photo, and news item heading at the bottom of that image of front page New York Times Sept.25, 1957

U.S. Cutters Conquer Northwest Passage

3 Coast Guard Craft Flags(?) of the nation to Make Transit

Just think of the poor polar bears. They didn't graduate from high school to go on to college, so are stuck there without solid sheet ice to wander around upon (since 1957).

Brings a tear to the eye...

From back in 2011 (not quite as long ago as 1957, for those of you in Rio Linda who went to school but never graduated, 'cuz they bought you books, sent you to school, and what did you do? -- you ate the books)

/thread hi-jack opening sequence

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