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  • The Doctrine of Preemptive Military Action: Bush or LBJ?

    It's barely dawn in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 4, 1964 and the US warship Turner Joy is under attack by the North Vietnamese. 21 torpedoes, machine gun fire... the ship is evading and counter-attacking: full battle stations, high drama in international waters. That night the US President, Lyndon Johnson, goes on national tv to tell all Americans that there was "unequivocal proof of an unprovoked attack" on a US vessel. Then, he went to Congress and on August 7 both houses passed a joint resolution called The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the President to use miltary force to "support" any Southeast Asian nation threatened by North Vietnam. And the Vietnam War begins...
    Posted Jan 07 2008, 01:45 PM by KTrapani with | with 6 comment(s)
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"Of those to whom much is given, much also is expected." Growing up, there was probably not a day that I didn't hear those words from my mom or dad. As an adult in our me-first society, we don't hear often enough about our responsibility to share our many blessings with those who are less fortunate. All of us -- as individuals, as families and as companies -- can do more, much more to ensure that all God's children have safe and adequate access to shelter, nutrition, health care, education, economic opportunity and a sustainable environment. My hope is that this blog will offer a forum for robust and civil discourse on how we might work together to heal the world.

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