The communists were not ruthless murderers, as they have been portrayed in so many books. Instead, they are shown as fiercely nationalistic and wanting only the best for their country (Olson & Roberts, 2008)
Albert, The Sixties Project, (New York, Praeger, 1984), p17 EDELMAN B. (ed), Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam, (London, PocketBooks, 1985 G
Involvement in the Korean War was justified because if America did not intervene, all of Korea would become communist like North Korea is today. The United States approved a new foreign policy in 1947, to contain communism (Nagai & Iriye, 1977, p
52). "…improvements in precision guided munitions as well as the speed, memory, capacity, and networking capabilities of the modern computer" (O'Hanlon, 1998, p
In 1945, America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Japanese cities. The bombings killed 129,000 people and performed several firebombing campaigns (Poolos, 2008, p
S. To go to the United Nations Security Council (Tatum, 2002, p
Kennedy's strategy were less expensive than Johnson's was and more covert than Nixon's. His strategies made for a more decisive outcome during the war that enabled some progression on behalf of the United States (Yancey, 2001, p
S. had a chance to play the big brother role and mediate the reconciliation process (Coward, 2014)
S. president had to seek Congressional sanction before committing troops to an international mission (Salisbury, 2010)
The war also ran into millions of dollars dispensed to finance the war. The war also injured the international reputation of the country among the peers of great nations such as the Soviet Union (Westheider, 2011)
over its oil policy directives, are the "28 pages" from the 9/11 Commission's Report now being discussed openly by politicians, who say they would like to see the sensitive information made public). The fact is that Iraq was never about WMDs or about 9/11 -- it was about Israel and the Washington-based neo-con/Zionists' plan for a "clean break" and a new "American (Israel) Century" in the Middle East (Davis 51)
It was Kristol who unapologetically announced, echoing Johnson's "tough" guise, that "We need to err on the side of being strong. And if people want to say we're an imperial power, fine" (Ferguson 5)
S. including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, who's own former PM had self-identified as the "father" of terrorism in the whole world) (Howe 38-39)
S. (Hunt 118) -- and just as this failed in Saigon, it also failed in Iraq when Bush (II) promoting "Mission Accomplished" left the country a total wreck and watched as it fell apart under a continued insurgency
The Vietnam War was a protracted engagement that became interminable and the purpose of which became blurred as protestors at home were shot and killed (students at Kent State University in Ohio, for example) and the MIC continued its weapons production, selling helicopters and the like to the government at a rate that would have made Smedley Butler ashamed, had he not already been dead for 25 years. With the assassination of President Diem in South Vietnam (under orders of Washington, no less), the situation in the area was altogether untenable (leaders were propped up by the West until they were no longer useful, then they were pulled -- fast as a building on fire) (Kinzer 159-165)
Liberty in 1967 during Israel's Six-Day War with its neighbors in the Middle East. Perhaps the reason is found in the fact that Johnson was good friends with Zionists like Mathilde Krim (ex-member of the Irgun, who spent time with Johnson in the White House during the war) (Segev 383)
Each is situated in its own particular political and social era. The CW emerged in the post-WW2 years and was inextricably linked with a number of dynamic variables then shaping the global geopolitical spectrum: these variables included the rise of the Military-Industrial Complex, identified by Eisenhower as a threat to global peace and American security/prosperity in his outgoing speech on the eve of his departure from the White House (Stone, Kuznick); also included was the propaganda campaign regarding the containment of Communism (even though this was not an issue in WW2, as the U
There was a lot of domestic conflict that took place, after which a lot of the opinion of the public changed to constraining the foreign policy of America, which showed that this war was an important political incident for the public of America, as well as around the globe. The American families were glued to the television, which brought news about the war every time, raising the domestic protests as well (Lau, et
These arguments do not support the evidence presented by history, but they do challenge the wisdom that has already been established regarding the Vietnam War. The officials of the administration of Lyndon Johnson never instructed their military on the ground war fight that took place in the South Vietnam's borders (McAllister, 2010)
They state that if Ho was only fighting for consolidation of his country, and was not an agent of China of the Soviet Union, so South Vietnam could not be one of the falling dominoes of Eisenhower. In fact, the traditional historians stated the domino theory to be of no use (Moyar, 2006)