There is a famous quote from 1960, in which johnson says to the journalist, saying this is not Lyndon Johnsons war, is americas war. If id drop that tomorrow, this war will still be here. He was right in a way, he was out of office, the work continued. The manner in which the war was fought and led vietnam is widely considered Lyndon Johnsons, failure, depending on the position of the left right political spectrum. There are two books out named Lyndon Johnsons war, talking about the series of decisions made between 1964 and 68, that led to the official justification the incidents of august 1964, the first landing of u. S. Combat troops to protect the base in 1965, the drastically escalation of American Forces in the country for next few years, after the total was half 1 million men. The change of strategy a basic unity, to enclave strategy, which is finally unfortunately accurately called search and destroy. The shocking humiliation of the 1968 offensive, and johnsons decision to turn
Hundreds of people are in a standoff with un peacekeepers and Security Forces in the democratic republic of congo after another day of protest its just gone 5 pm in the town of benny with 2 people and they are confirmed killed after crowds tried to march towards an airport where un forces based now theyre venting their anger against the u. N. Forces for failing to protect them from attacks by rebel groups 4 people were killed on monday as protesters attacked u. N. Compounds and set fire to the town hall the unrest has now forced the World Health Organization to pull almost a 3rd of its staff from beni which is grappling with an Ebola Outbreak it warns the instability will most certainly lead to an increase in ebola cases well im a buddhist the head of the United Nations in grand nord benny a little earlier he told my colleague Martin Dennis that the peacekeepers are not firing live ammunition protesters. 1st of course we are aware of the demonstrators who are making their way and we ar
The money will go a lot its really thought went on to take for granted nice to see that specific goodness of biofuel its always the ordinary people that pay and companies should take more responsibility for the state of the promise climate campaigners say that the Aviation Industry is responsible for nearly 5 percent of Global Carbon emissions the french government says of the new eco tax will raise grow 200000000. 00 a year money they say that they will spend on less polluting modes of transport such as rail the eco tax has already proved unpopular with some investors shares an air france fell after the announcement last year fridge present demand or mark or scrapped plans for a similar eco tax on diesel fuel that sparked months of yellow face protests but some activists welcomed the move by france governments historically have seen aviation as a bit of a no go area intensive taxation or other measures that could help tackle emissions lets hope that at the moment theres that theres a
Anything else here in keeping the pressure on iran the French Military has admitted that antitank missiles found during a raid in libya belonged to the french army the u. S. Made javelin missiles were recovered from the warlord holy for half time space on the outskirts of tripoli French Military saying the missiles were intended for the self protection of a French Military unit deployed for Counter Terror operations in libya but documents found with the ammunitions suggest they belonged to the u. A. E. When they know these are the u. S. Made weapons and these are the chinese made weapons the contract written on them comes from the United Arab Emirates the last one we have found modern weapons while libya is under embargoed these weapons were imported from certain countries these countries should use them to defend themselves but instead they became involved in the conflict and the libyan bloodbath. Natasha butler has more now from paris. A of p. And voices News Agencies say that they h
A promise i made not only to the sicilians but the italians the biggest Migrant Center in europe a business of dozens and dozens of millions of euros and it had become as proven by the Prosecutors Office assented base for the nigerian mafia for drug dealing prostitution theft and stolen goods aggression violence rape and homicide and polygon yet i was considered to be crazy when as a minister i promised i would shut it down because it was a Center Housing more than 4000 people in the past we kept reducing those numbers and today its 0 the u. S. Is urging turkey to stop Drilling Operations off the coast of cyprus the warning comes after im cross sent a 2nd ship to drill for oil and gas on monday cyprus is divided between an internationally recognized republic and a turkish controlled part in the north which is considered occupied territory huge gas reserves were recently discovered of the supply of coast. China is demanding that the United States in may that may cancel a potential 22000