[Peace-discuss] Framing Obama

[C. G. Estabrook]

The past doesn't repeat itself -- but it does rhyme, as Mark Twain said.

In 1968, right after the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the US business world turned against that war, because they thought it was too costly, even though there were proposals within the US government to send in more American troops. 

Then LBJ announced he wouldn't be sending any more troops to Vietnam: the Pentagon Papers tell us that, because of the fear of growing unrest in the cities, the government had to end the war -- it wasn't sure that it was going to have enough troops, both to send to Vietnam and to quell the riots on the domestic front. 

"...what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge."  --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:55:27 -0500 (CDT)
>From: <rlangenh at illinois.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Framing Obama  
>To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
>
>What is your solution to these problems and how do you plan to muster the votes to carry it out?