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

[Michael Dawson]

In point of fact, the one person who knew JFK better than anyone else,
Robert Kennedy, was willing to let history know exactly what his brother's
intentions in Vietnam had been as early as 1964 and 1965, the critical
period before it had truly become "Johnson's War." In a series of oral
history interviews for the JFK Library, RFK said that "it was worthwhile for
psychological, political reasons" to stay in Vietnam. 

"The President felt that he had a strong, overwhelming reason for being in
Vietnam and that we should win the war in Vietnam....If you lost Vietnam, I
think everybody was quite clear that the rest of Southeast Asia would fall."

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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
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