Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam

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Summary: A great book on the nightmare of vietnam
Review: The author uses the politicians own words to condemn them. Bob McNamara the best brighest and most able of all the Secrataries of Defense before or since really loused this war up, yet he was one of the first to realize, by mid 1967, that they war was a disaster and we needed to get the hell out, but the war, as berman convining argues, was lyndon johnson's not McNamara's Johnson's subordinates lied and cheated the american people into a false sense of confidence just because they wanted to please their boos, I think johnson did very many good things for america (Medicare, food stamps, college grants, evivil right, the list is quite long....) and yet he was such an egomaniac and wanted to desperately to prove america could do anything anywhere anytime that the North Vietnamese beat us at our own game, they proved to us that they could endure crushing losses and destruction anywhere, anytime, and still they would not give in. it was a faceoff and we blinked first,thus we lost the war fair and square, or rather Lyndon Johnson's war was a defeat for Johnson and thus for america, i think johnson saw himself and america as one, he personalized the war too greatly and once the war could not be won it killed him.I hope we never get involved in anything quite like that war ever again, true we killed millions of enemy soldiers, Viet Cong, and even innocent civilians but the Vietnamese were able to win through shear force of will. the sooner we accept the fact that we lost the better