08-05-2011, 10:07 AM
Fascinating review, Jim.
Halberstam attempts to describe LBJ and Vietnam without Kennedy's NSAM 263 and Johnson's NSAM 273.
Douglass painted a broad arc of dramatic tension between the peacemaker in the light and the Morlockian legions of darkness.
Halberstam plays Mickey the Dope about Lodgewho appears as a defiant mutineer in Unspeakable as the fires of war glow on the horizon.
Johnson was an obscene bully who appeared gray and broken March 1968 to wimp out like the barroom boor in Casino after a taste of the Joe Pesci character.
CIA asset and pisser-on-conspiracy-theories Cronkite convinced Johnson Tet was the North in resurgenceCol. Bui Tin later said it was the end for the North.
Johnson for all his bravado refused the Chiefs' request to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong when they were granted a fifteen-minute meeting standing in a small room in the White House
http://hnn.us/articles/34024.html
Col. Bui Tin credited both the support of Jane Fonda and the antiwar element as well as the failure of the U.S. command to realize the importance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and to break it.
Nixon and Kissinger would continue the war; would go to China. Nixon would fall to another CIA coup.
Kennedy was removed for his opposition to the national security state's plans.
His replacement certainly profited his own donors Brown & Root, as well as the Paines' Bell Helicopter fortunes, secured access to Golden Triangle heroin, played to the Domino Band until Mr. Nixon cleared his throat.
The terra cotta warriors filed off in sequence, yet the larger band plays on.
Hoover heart attack 1972, Johnson heart attack 1973, Nixon resignation 1974, Rockefeller appointed by Stooge Ford to investigate CIA which is handed to GHWBush.
Yet Halberstam missed the Monumental Discontinuity.
Vietnam Policy as a dove thrown in a blender and pureed.
No one can be that stupid.
Duplicitous, indeed.
Halberstam attempts to describe LBJ and Vietnam without Kennedy's NSAM 263 and Johnson's NSAM 273.
Douglass painted a broad arc of dramatic tension between the peacemaker in the light and the Morlockian legions of darkness.
Halberstam plays Mickey the Dope about Lodgewho appears as a defiant mutineer in Unspeakable as the fires of war glow on the horizon.
Johnson was an obscene bully who appeared gray and broken March 1968 to wimp out like the barroom boor in Casino after a taste of the Joe Pesci character.
CIA asset and pisser-on-conspiracy-theories Cronkite convinced Johnson Tet was the North in resurgenceCol. Bui Tin later said it was the end for the North.
Johnson for all his bravado refused the Chiefs' request to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong when they were granted a fifteen-minute meeting standing in a small room in the White House
http://hnn.us/articles/34024.html
Col. Bui Tin credited both the support of Jane Fonda and the antiwar element as well as the failure of the U.S. command to realize the importance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and to break it.
Nixon and Kissinger would continue the war; would go to China. Nixon would fall to another CIA coup.
Kennedy was removed for his opposition to the national security state's plans.
His replacement certainly profited his own donors Brown & Root, as well as the Paines' Bell Helicopter fortunes, secured access to Golden Triangle heroin, played to the Domino Band until Mr. Nixon cleared his throat.
The terra cotta warriors filed off in sequence, yet the larger band plays on.
Hoover heart attack 1972, Johnson heart attack 1973, Nixon resignation 1974, Rockefeller appointed by Stooge Ford to investigate CIA which is handed to GHWBush.
Yet Halberstam missed the Monumental Discontinuity.
Vietnam Policy as a dove thrown in a blender and pureed.
No one can be that stupid.
Duplicitous, indeed.