This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any number of pieces. Here on American History tv all weekend long we are focusing o
Historians, Mark Lawrence and lien hang nguyen on the legacy of the vietnam war. This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any
Pressure, saying do we need to be building billions of dollars worth of new bases in europe at the same time we are closing bases. So there are encouraging signs there. In terms of the cost benefit analysis, i would again point to the rand corporation. Hardly a bunch of lefty peace nick. To the extent there is any benefit when it comes to time, so yeah. Thank you. I have a question on what the utility of all of this is . When we got into afghanistan and iraq, we pulled in a bunch of reserves using this massively globally deployed army. I wondered why first rank soldiers were trained on reserves. Intervention and domestic and the work against these people. You know, i think we have to look at the larger u. S. Military budget which i think frankly speaking is totally out of control. We have a budget that is out of proportion. From any terrorist threat to threats to health and education and other forms of wellbeing. They cant pass an audit. This should be disturbing to us but it gets us a
Been shooting at parked cars in the east bay. We learned Law Enforcement is investigating more than 100 cases of cars being damaged. Only on 2, ktvus amber lee live in the standard san leandro neighborhood where nine cars were shot up early today. Amber . Reporter julie, were on santiago road, the family who owns this truck tells me this back window was shot out sometime around 1 30 this morning. This is the third time one of their vehicles has been hit. The first time he actually got out and there was no laughter on his face. He wasnt having fun. He was dead serious. Reporter Surveillance Video from that first incident in january. That time the homeowner tells me it was only her and her husbands two vehicles that were targeted. Less than three weeks later, vandals driveby again, is time they dont get out of their vehicle when firing a bb gun at the familys vehicles. The second time, the vandals also shot at a handful of other cars in the neighborhood. The homeowners spoke with us on t
See much change there. Itll be sunny and warm for us, not hot. 50s on the temperatures or 40s. We are running warmer. Good five, seven degrees for some. More mid40s, upper 40s instead of upper and mid, system for the weekend is slowly moving out here. Its a couple day away for sure. Sunny for all. Warmer, cool lows but mid70s for highs but this will be the warmest day of the week. Temperatures mid70s for some. Bart we are starting with that . Thats right. This morning there is still no bart service between the pittsburgh and North Concord stations because of an electrical glitch thats damaging the bart cars the problem started yesterday morning more than two dozen cars running between the two stations were damaged by an unexplained power surge. This morning a bus bridge has been set up between the pittsburgh and North Concord stations. Bart said 80 cars had the same kind of damage as they traveled near the west oakland station. We dont know if its connected many we dont know if what wa