undaries, and have nothing to worry about because they are now a major world power and they can handle the task of the worlds police force (Terry 28). The United States has a great industrial complex, great wealth, and an outstanding agriculture out put. Who is to say that we as Americans can not complete a task as much as a police action in another country (Terry 28)? Countering this great reprisal was a man who was believed to say. “The basic fact of our world is that of the Western Hemisphere. We inside of it are torn by two things our melting pot of both political and philosophically. When you throw these people into a situation where they come from different back grounds they will object…I believe to win a war in another country we need to be able take care of our selves here in America first (Terry 29).This book was ok the credibility is a little sketchy, but I believe it to be true coming from a very credible writer and publishing company. This showed an in depth look at the stance the American people showed towards the beginning of the war, and as time went on more and more people thought the way the anonymous writer did in the views of why are our boys over there.http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/68apr/vietnam.htmby James C. Thompson, Jr. April 1968.From the beginning of John Kennedy's Administration into this fifth year of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, substantially the same small group of men have presided over the destiny of the United States (Thompson). Yet a first and central ingredient in these years of Vietnam decisions does involve history. The ingredient was the legacy of the 1950s -- by which I mean the so-called "loss Pipkens-Smith 10of China," the Korean War, and the Far East policy of Secretary of State Dulles (Thompson). What Thompson is talking about is the different policies that we had with the different countries in the Far East. Meaning we tried to become an ally with these countries, even ...
