13-02-2017, 05:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 13-02-2017, 06:17 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
That shows you the difference between Trump and Obama.
Under Obama, the book the doves were reading was Gordon Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster. A much better book about Vietnam that Halberstam's obsolete Model T Ford.
BTW, is Bannon saying that to justify his presence on the NSC? Ha Ha
Because in this instance its exactly wrong. Once it became clear that LBJ was reversing JFK's Vietnam policy, one by one, both the formal NSC advisors and informal cabinet left, one by one. Salinger, O'Donnell, Schlesinger, Sorenson, Bundy, Ball, and finally McNamara. They left because it was obvious that LBJ would NOT listen to them. He had his own agenda. And that agenda stayed intact until the Tet offensive.
I am sure you can find good examples of the NSC getting something completely wrong, but this is not one of them. And it shows what a poor student to history Bannon is.
Under Obama, the book the doves were reading was Gordon Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster. A much better book about Vietnam that Halberstam's obsolete Model T Ford.
BTW, is Bannon saying that to justify his presence on the NSC? Ha Ha
Because in this instance its exactly wrong. Once it became clear that LBJ was reversing JFK's Vietnam policy, one by one, both the formal NSC advisors and informal cabinet left, one by one. Salinger, O'Donnell, Schlesinger, Sorenson, Bundy, Ball, and finally McNamara. They left because it was obvious that LBJ would NOT listen to them. He had his own agenda. And that agenda stayed intact until the Tet offensive.
I am sure you can find good examples of the NSC getting something completely wrong, but this is not one of them. And it shows what a poor student to history Bannon is.