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Tag Archives: Vietnam
Is Our Media Responsible for Millions of Deaths?
The Huffington Post picked this one up too, so please read it on their website. The only additions needed were that they changed the title from this one, and deleted the following, amazing (but very true) quote from convicted Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring: “Of course the people don’t want war. … But … it is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. … All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country.” Continue reading
Avoiding Needless Wars, Part 3: Are We About to Repeat the Mistakes of Vietnam?
In August of 1964 Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson a blank check to escalate the war in Vietnam. Two alleged acts of North Vietnamese unprovoked aggression were the basis for that resolution. But, as detailed in Part 1 of this series, their first attack was in response to covert American attacks on North Vietnam, and as detailed in Part 2 the second attack never occurred. This third installment in the series draws on additional formerly classified information to extend those arguments, and concludes by warning of might become a kind of “Iran War Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.” Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, iran, martin hellman, needless wars, nuclear risk, Senate Resolution 65, stanford, Vietnam, war and peace
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Avoiding Needless Wars, Part 1: The First Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Wednesday marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, a very appropriate time to reexamine ways that we have been fooled – or even worse, fooled ourselves – and gotten into needless wars. Avoiding such debacles is key to Defusing the Nuclear Threat because every war has at least a small chance of escalating to the use of nuclear weapons. The Vietnam War serves as Exhibit A in this argument since Nixon’s “Madman Nuclear Alert,” explained in a later installment in this series, added needless nuclear risk and was motivated by his desire to end the war on terms favorable to him. Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, gulf of tonkin incident, Herrick, maddox, martin hellman, nuclear risk, nuclear war, stanford, turner joy, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war and peace
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Defusing the Nuclear Threat 