The Twentieth Century: A People's History by Howard Zinn

Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: History, United States, General, 20th Century, Modern
ISBN: 9780061843464
Google: wiHEmKdU7agC
Amazon: B000W5MIEY
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

There may be a limit beyond which many Americans and much of the world will not permit the United States to go. The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission, on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one. It could conceivably produce a costly distortion in the American national consciousness.

That “costly distortion” seems to have taken place by the spring of 1968, when, with the sudden and scary Tet offensive of the National Liberation Front, Westmoreland asked President Johnson to send him 200,000 more troops on top of the 525,000 already there. Johnson asked a small group of “action officers” in the Pentagon to advise him on this. They studied the situation and concluded that 200,000 troops would totally Americanize the war and would not strengthen the Saigon government because:

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