Cykdelic wrote:
Blurry,
Let’s be clear..... it was JFK, not LBJ, that got us into Vietnam as it was JFK who gave the okay for the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Further, like most wars VN was religious....the French contacted JFK and let him know that they were bailing out and that NVM and the commies would liquidate the Christians in the south.
I am not sure that I know the history of the war, I thought that JFK had only limited advisors and CIA in there and that it was Johnson who escalated with troops in 1965, like I said without researching the war I am uncertain, I was just a kid back then, I was only 9 years old in 1965.