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Well you said it- The US did follow the French into idiocy. Nobody made the right decision because the prevailing narrative was already set and influencing all decisions- that being the Domino Theory. How could any politician after WWII ignore the threat of Communism? They should have been more intelligent and acted differently but it co…
Well you said it- The US did follow the French into idiocy. Nobody made the right decision because the prevailing narrative was already set and influencing all decisions- that being the Domino Theory. How could any politician after WWII ignore the threat of Communism? They should have been more intelligent and acted differently but it comes back to politics which is not intelligent but expedient. Eisenhower should have crushed it, but he didn't. France should not have had the support of the allies and UN to go back to Indochina, but they did. They raised an army of Foreign Legionnaires with money borrowed from (I wonder who). They barely got their tents set up in the jungle when they began begging the US for assistance. Somebody in Washington handled it. To Eisenhower it wasn't that big of a deal, YET, but it grew from there. He was war weary, and more inclined to build Interstates, but he knew what was going on and he warned us.
How could any politician after WWII ignore the threat of Communism?
I agree with that. But the proper response would have been to understand that communism was an invention of the bankers to get us to like the idea of having nothing and being happy. Bill Cooper understood it well, cost him first his leg, then his life. He was a real hero. World War one and two were one war. The expression "theater of war" is not for nothing. These wars are always staged and for the benefit of the people who start them in the background. The bankers.