Pierre Asselin
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first heard Apr 2025
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Once you commit to a conflict, even if it's clear that it's not going your way,
disengaging from it becomes problematic because of the image about you, about your party, about the country it's going to generate.
And Johnson is really kind of obsessed with this idea of credibility, again, in part because of his upbringing.
So in early August 1964,
The American Navy is off the coast of North Vietnam supporting South Vietnamese commando secret activities inside Northern Vietnam.
And Johnson is well aware of this.
So there's a mission that takes place on the 2nd of August of 1964.
And during that mission, the primary American warship supporting the South Vietnamese commandos comes under fire.
In response to that, the U.S.
deploys a second vessel to support more operations on the 4th of August.
And then and this is where it kind of gets interesting.
The weather is really bad on that day.
And then according to the U.S.
Navy on site on the 4th of August, the American vessels come under attack.
It turns out that there's no evidence that there ever was an actual North Vietnamese attack on that day.
And having worked in the Vietnamese archives for 30 years, I have yet to come across anything suggesting that the North Vietnamese Navy did actually try anything against the American Navy.
What were they thinking was the attack?
A nervous radar operator, sonar operator.
It could have been whales.
It could have been fish.
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