Eisenhower did not get us into Vietnam. Your logic is absurd.
Democrat LBJ promised in his election he absolutely would not get the USA into Vietnam, calling his Republican opponent a war monger. After the election, that Democrat president followed the Democratic Party norm of pathological lying and sent hundreds of thousands of Americans to fight in Vietnam. The Vietnam war is 100% a war the Democratic Party is responsible for. It also was a war started on a deliberate lie, just like a Democrat president lied to get us into WW1.
Perspective is needed!!! Therefore, for those with interest, I will provide a broader view perspective for those who have the attention span to investigate and digest what is there to be learned.
.... It was the Puffed up and overly dramatized non substantiated Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to actions by LBJ, and that was in part because the drama has been drummed up and played out, with much of Republican backing, that Goldwater has planned to use it against, Johnson if Johnson did not act.. Goldwater's plan was to push the message to the public that LBJ did not and would not protect American Interest. They (Republicans) forced this message that resulted into the acts that escalated Viet Nam War, because they knew Johnson did not want to go to expanding war in Viet Nam... and they figured they could use his reluctance against him... so Republican could get in and try and roll back the Civil Rights legislation, and curb the Planned Immigration Act that Johnson had designed.
People have to learn to look at the big picture... and learn what makes the pieces move as they do and as they did.
LBJ's attitude about Viet Nam was as he said:
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Goldwater and Republican pushed his back against the wall, and Johnson knew it was a plan and a play to try and make him loose office, so republican could come in and roll back Civil Rights and Block the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and not permit the Immigration Act to move forward. Thus so, it was a situation where he had much to weight, so as not to loose position and have his legislation rolled back by the agenda of the Republican system. either choice has severe consequence, but Johnson knew, that Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Womens Rights, Medicare and Medicaid and Job Corps and Immigration was worth saving, faced with the choices before him.
(people should learn the broader perspective before they began to play the "tid bit" game of drama spins).
That's why it's said, a little bit of information can be dangerous and in some it is very dangerous.
Now, these are the "REAL TRUTH'S" of what and why and how we got into Viet Nam escalations - the Republican were entrenched as they are today, in the Military Industrial Complex and its agenda, as well as it is still engulfed with aims and intents
to continues TODAY, the exact same attack on Civil Rights, Women Rights, Voting Rights and Immigration Legislation as they held back in the 1960's. .... and they certainly detest the Immigration legislation to make any considerations for brown and black people from any place around the world.
I truly do wish people would expand their reading material to truly learn beyond the spins, to research beneath the common spill, to see the make up of what expose and presents the REAL TRUTH'S.... and many need to stop living in perpetual denials of what they can't bring themselves to face and digest.
I find it sad, that many forums are not filled with people who have the attention span to deal with "real truth's" because it requires thinking, researching, reading, understanding and being willing to learn what they have a voluntary mental block against learning.
