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In 1964 Barry Goldwater was gaining rapidly on Lyndon Johnson.\u00a0 The attempts by Democrats to paint Goldwater as a war monger were not working.\u00a0 Instead, Goldwater was pounding Johnson for being soft on communism.\u00a0 It was having a serious impact on the election.\u00a0 Then, on August 2 there was a report of an attack by North Vietnamese Torpedo Boats on an American Destroyer, the USS Maddox.\u00a0 On August 4 there was another report that both the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy were engaged in a naval battle with North Vietnamese Torpedo boats.\u00a0\u00a0 In response, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air attacks.\u00a0 He then spoke to the nation and requested a resolution by congress:\u00a0 \u201cexpressing the unity and determination of the United States in supporting freedom and protecting peace in Southeast Asia.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 He asked for support for: \u201call necessary action to protect our Armed Forces\u201d <\/em><\/strong>but also said he sought \u201cno wider war.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The country united behind Johnson and Barry Goldwater got slaughtered in the 1964 election.\u00a0 To this day liberals believe that Goldwater was defeated because he was too hawkish for the American people.\u00a0 In reality, the opposite was true.\u00a0 It was Johnson who salvaged his failing re-election campaign by launching us into the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

The American people were never told that the USS Maddox wasn\u2019t exactly cruising along minding its own business in international waters.\u00a0 It was actually supporting an attack by South Vietnamese forces on North Vietnam.\u00a0 As for the fierce battle on August 4, even Johnson questioned whether or not our Navy was shooting at whales. \u00a0To this day the North Vietnamese continue to deny that the attack on August 4, 1964 even occurred.<\/p>\n

If you are worried about current events, be grateful for one thing.\u00a0 Obama did not seize the day and pull a Tonkin.\u00a0 He did not ask for authorization to destroy ISIS.\u00a0 If he had done so, Republicans would have no choice but to give him support. \u00a0But instead of doing that, Obama is dithering \u00a0incoherently and appears incapable of making a decision.\u00a0 Even if Obama ultimately man\u2019s up, it will be too late.\u00a0 We may have narrowly escaped another Tonkin Gulf moment in Time.<\/p>\n

Democrats, wiser than Obama, know this.\u00a0 That is why Senator Bill Nelson proposed the resolution for Obama.\u00a0 It is why Biden is screaming about following ISIS to the \u201cGates of Hell.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 But there\u2019s a problem.\u00a0 Our Commander in Chief either didn\u2019t get the memo or he didn\u2019t care.\u00a0 The good news is that while Obama will launch some airstrikes etc., he is unlikely to go off half-cocked into another war.\u00a0 The bad news is that this strategy is unlikely to work and at some point in the future, another President will have to do the heavy lifting.\u00a0 In the meantime we will pay a terrible price, but not as high a price as we would pay if Democrats used another Tonkin Gulf resolution to retain control of the Senate.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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