The other back story is that DJT is now onboard with the US military and deep state's global strategy for world domination by submitting Russia and China to US dominance.
"America First" as taken on new meaning. The president has apparently decided now that Iraq was not the strategic blunder had had believed.
The game on the grand chessboard is about to get a lot more "interesting" in the many faceted reality show. More popcorn please.
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Bracing Views
Fear of Defeat and the Vietnam War
Paul Antonopoulos
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Fear of defeat drives military men to folly. Early in 1968, General William Westmoreland, America’s commanding general in Vietnam, feared that communist forces might overrun U.S. military positions at Khe Sanh. His response, according to recently declassified cables as reported in the New York Times today, was to seek authorization to move nuclear weapons into Vietnam. He planned to use tactical nuclear weapons against concentrations of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops. President Lyndon Johnson cancelled Westmoreland’s plans and ordered that discussions about using nuclear weapons be kept secret (i.e. hidden from the American people), which for the last fifty years they have been.
Westmoreland and the U.S. military/government had already been lying to the American people about progress in the war. Khe Sanh as well as the Tet Offensive of 1968 were illustrations that there was no light in sight at the end of the tunnel — no victory loomed by force of arms. Thus the call for nuclear weapons to be deployed to Vietnam, a call that President Johnson wisely refused to countenance....Recall that five-star Gen. Douglas MacArthur, winner of the war in Pacfic and one of the most popular people in the US at the time wanted to use nuclear weapons against China after they entered the Korean War. Truman fired him. MacArthur returned to a ticker tape in Manhattan and became chairman of the board of Remington Rand and later of the Sperry Rand.
Bracing Views
Fear of Defeat and the Vietnam War
William J. Astore | retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) who taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School and now teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology
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MacArthur Mania
“Recall that five-star Gen. Douglas MacArthur, winner of the war in Pacific and one of the most popular people in the US at the time wanted to use nuclear weapons against China after they entered the Korean War. Truman fired him. MacArthur returned to a ticker tape in Manhattan and became chairman of the board of Remington Rand and later of the Sperry Rand.”
Regarding parades, I grew up in Hollywood CA, which today is part of Los Angeles. Before WW II there were many Orientals in California. Perhaps a third was Chinese and the other two thirds were Japanese at that time. When WW II broke out, white people in Los Angeles attacked Asians on sight. In Feb 1942 the police grabbed anyone who had as little as 1/16th Japanese heritage and put them in concentration camps. Rich whites stole Japanese land and assets.
My point is that during W II, the whites of Los Angeles went fruity for MacArthur, since he was fighting the “evil Japs.” City parks, schools, and roads were renamed in honor of MacArthur. Newspapers praised his every utterance, whether from MacArthur's mouth or farted from his other end.
There was some adulation of George S. Patton, since Patton was born in greater Los Angeles, but nowhere near as much as MacArthur, since Patton didn’t fight the “evil Japs.” L.A. was not obsessed with Nazis like New York City was, since L.A. had far fewer Jews than it does today.
The exact same phenomenon happened in British Columbia, Canada, which likewise had many Orientals, which were likewise put into concentration camps.
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