History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Strategic Hamlet Program, Lyndon B. Johnson, Buddhist Crisis
12 Mar 2014
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Choosing war: le duan and the south-firsters, lyndon johnson and the gulf of tonkin incident. From last class: the nlf was challenging the diem regime. Everyone is capable of embracing these ideals, and they should embrace them (what is good for america is good for the world) If everyone embraced these ideals, the world would be a more peaceful place. The americans had a duty (a mission) to spread these ideals around the world. Manifest destiny when the americans moved westward across the continent, it was their duty to uplift the native americans. In southeast asia, the americans believed that had to go help the. Diem regime and prevent international communism from seeping into southeast asia. Because the americans felt so right in their cause, it left little room for alternative visions (their way or the highway: this did little to help the americans" relationship with the. Vietnamese government: this meant that the americans weren"t willing to entertain alternative visions.
