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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
And, I was alive when Goldwater was running for president and stayed up late election night to celebrate his landslide loss.
He openly said he would have considered using the hydrogen bomb in North Vietnam and may have started WW3 -- the cold war was not so cold then Joe. We were having air raid drills and hiding the the school basement. Lot of good that would have done. Go hide in the basement and "Put your head between your legs and kiss your sweet ass good bye was the mantra".
It was a monumental loss -- Goldwater was a total idiot 
Maybe, that is where Trump gets some of his ideas? I really don't know. Maybe, the Demons in the wanna-be emperor's head tell him  |
Barry, I really don't need your lessons on the Cold War. I was there. Army Captain four years. Directly supported the Pershing nuclear troops on the ground 1979-1981. Any presidential candidate who would agree not to "consider" the use of nuclear weapons in any case is unfit to serve. The Russians still invest heavily in Civil Defense and the Swiss Civil Defense is maintained on standby. It is a good idea to be prepared for any eventuality that might offer survival, and one does his best under the ambient circumstances. Blast damage only goes so far. Radiation and Heat go further and a well timed desk-dive can mean the difference between disfiguring or lethal burns each destroying a life and only temporary illness. You think in broad sweeps aiming to approximate truth. Actual knowledge requires precision and tight thinking.
In the end, Lyndon Johnson lacked the courage to defeat the communists, afraid to invade the North. The North was far more courageous (and far less principled) because it had no qualms in repeatedly invading the South. Would China have risked the vaporization of Peking, would Russia have risked annihilation of Moscow, so save Hanoi? Not a chance. LBJ's falure of will set up a stalemate that caused the pointless death of 50,000 Americans, and ultimately, the betrayal of the people of South Vietnam. We should have waged total, unrestricted ground warfare against the North and annihilated communism in Vietnam or we should have said goodbye and left. One or the other. Failure to decide one or the other, indecision, killed brave Americans needlessly, turned off the American public, and led to disaster.
But that's miles away from the issue. The gentleman in question dishonestly asserted that there is constitutional right to open immigration without discrimination. He assertion that Trump would know that if he'd read the constitution is dishonest and dangerous.