Had a gutsy Trump-like scrapper arisen to challenge “news” media dagger in the back tactics, a victorious President Goldwater would have carried out his promise to instruct the Joint Chiefs they had six months to win the “splendid little war” JFK gratuitously ignited in Vietnam - - almost 60,000 Americans would not have had their young lives snuffed in a war that neither JFK nor LBJ had the first clue how to wage, let alone win. And two million Cambodians would not have been consumed in the holocaust visited upon them.

Indeed the war winning measures later taken by Nixon - - operations “Pocket Money” mining of DPRV waters and “Linebacker II” B52 attacks on vital targets neither JFK nor LBJ had the wits or the guts to destroy - - could have been taken a decade earlier to end the fighting and prevent foreign invaders from over running our the Republic of Vietnam.
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