25-08-2014, 02:39 AM
A lot of researchers argue about whether JFK intended to pull out of Vietnam or not.
I don't think that is an important argument.
Looking at Brown & Root, Bell Helicopter and Haliburton, all Texas-based military contractors -
and how much money they made after the assassination - I think the better questions are:
1. "Would JFK gone down that road?
2. Would he have had 540,000 troops in Vietnam at the end of his second term?"
3. Would he have watched 5,000 plus helicopters shot down?
4. Would the Tonkin Gulf affair even have happened?"
5. Would almost sixty-thousand Americans have died in Vietnam?
I think the troop levels - year-by-year, tell the real story. (I posted them earlier in the thread).
Whether JFK intended to withdraw or not, he would not have sent 540,000 US military to Vietnam as LBJ did.
There would have been no Tonkin Gulf pretext. And Bell Helicopter would not have lost 5,000 helicopters in Vietnam.
The LN'ers can argue about JFK's ideology or intentions. But if they are arguing the Vietnam War would have played out
EXACTLY THE SAME WAY - had JFK had lived - they're making an argument with no facts to support it.
Not only that, it defies common sense. But people get side-tracked arguing about whether JFK would have withdrawn or not.
That's how I see it.
I don't think that is an important argument.
Looking at Brown & Root, Bell Helicopter and Haliburton, all Texas-based military contractors -
and how much money they made after the assassination - I think the better questions are:
1. "Would JFK gone down that road?
2. Would he have had 540,000 troops in Vietnam at the end of his second term?"
3. Would he have watched 5,000 plus helicopters shot down?
4. Would the Tonkin Gulf affair even have happened?"
5. Would almost sixty-thousand Americans have died in Vietnam?
I think the troop levels - year-by-year, tell the real story. (I posted them earlier in the thread).
Whether JFK intended to withdraw or not, he would not have sent 540,000 US military to Vietnam as LBJ did.
There would have been no Tonkin Gulf pretext. And Bell Helicopter would not have lost 5,000 helicopters in Vietnam.
The LN'ers can argue about JFK's ideology or intentions. But if they are arguing the Vietnam War would have played out
EXACTLY THE SAME WAY - had JFK had lived - they're making an argument with no facts to support it.
Not only that, it defies common sense. But people get side-tracked arguing about whether JFK would have withdrawn or not.
That's how I see it.