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> ... thousands of Vietnamese.. “still die from the effects of American chemical warfare,” so we learn from the Israeli press, where the veteran correspondent #AmnonKapeliouk describes what he saw in Saigon hospitals: children dying of cancer ... describing South Vietnam, which was targeted for chemical warfare by John F. Kennedy and his successors.. he listened to the “hair-raising stories that remind me of what we heard during the trials of #Eichmann and #Demjanjuk”
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> JFK..+ concerned with the “crisis of confidence among Vietnamese.. eroding popular support for GVN.. victory,” and the “crisis of confidence.. of the American public and Government,” .. do not see how “our actions are related to our fundamental objective of victory”—JFK’s invariant condition. JFK.. recognized that the war was unpopular.. but regarded..[it].. not as an opportunity for withdrawal, but.. as a problem to be overcome..[as] a threat to the military victory...
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