"As far as Vietnam is concerned... I think we have a commitment in Vietnam that we have to keep...
But I think that Hanoi and the Viet Cong and the National Front and the Chineese are convinced that the United States is going to turn and run from Vietnam... that we don't have the tenacity or the will to remain... [hey -what do you know they were right!!].
I think our greatest problem, therefore, is to prove that we're going to remain in Vietnam. Now, that war, that struggle is going to be long, is going to be much bloodier [emphasis added] than it is at the present time, and we're going to have a commitment of a great number more troops than we have at the present time. I would think that the estimate of 400,000 troops by the of the year is probably accurate and the fact that it will grow even more next year, and the casualties will be considerably higher than they are at the present time, as far as Americans."
It is worth clarifying here when RFK speaks with glee about the war IndoChina growing BLOODIER, he is not suggesting that he is is going to spill any of his own blood for said noble mission- he is of course selflessly offering to send other people's kids (disproportionately Black, Latino, and Poor) to their death. This at a time, remember, when as AG he wouldn't send Federal Agents into the South to defend Blacks' right not to be lynched. But he doesn't seem to have a problem sending those same Black kids to die in the jungles and swamps of SE Asia...
With heroes like this who needs villains?
footnote one: you know in some places when you try to assassinate a foreign leader its called "terrorism..." PS did you catch Obama waxing poetic to the Cuban exile last week about how great things were in Cuba under Batista...
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