“There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear”
Join
me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a
time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had
uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to
impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation.
It
is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command
of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under
attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently
dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing
by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf
Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep
immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over
fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of
Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields
of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
