Should President Johnson increase the United States' troop commitment to South Vietnam in 1965?

Question

PLEAZE HELP DUDES!!!

Answer 1

You mean should he HAVE done? I'd say no, because that was a local fracas that we shouldn't have been involved in in the first place. It was a civil war and had nothing to do with Communism spreading to the West.

Answer 2

No he shouldn't have. Kennedy and McNamara intended  to pull out our observers out by 1965 and Johnson felt that it would be a defeat and increased our troops. Watch the documentary Fog of War.