[lbo-talk] Eat shit and die, was United against a Pro-War Democrat

[lweiger at umich.edu]

Quoting "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>:


> "...won the war of national liberation for the Vietnamese"?  Vietnam today
> doesn't look much like a country that won such a war.  The US achieved its
> war aim -- thwarting an example of independent development under domestic
> control.  --CGE

I've asked before, and I'll ask again: what evidence do you have that anyone in
the Kennedy administration was quaking at the prospect of utopia in Vietnam? 
If you said something along these lines to McNamara, he'd laugh at you, and for
once in his life, he'd do so sincerely.

-- Luke