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WinkyDink

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4. Mr. Peabody! The POTUS used the Wayback Machine to re-visit 1961!

Reply to Fast Walker 52 (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 09:18 AM

Nov 2015

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1961.html

May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret 'Special Advisors' to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of 'counter-insurgency' in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.

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US troops on the ground in Syria [View all] Fast Walker 52 Nov 2015 OP

Because so much has been spent already dividing and creating horror in Syria that it can't polly7 Nov 2015 #1

Very true newfie11 Nov 2015 #5

It does not "depress" me to see an opinion about Obama being "in the grip of the war mongerers". Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #2

so you care more about the left-wing being left-wing (anti-war) than about Fast Walker 52 Nov 2015 #10

escalation DustyJoe Nov 2015 #3

Bingo!!!!!!!! Nt newfie11 Nov 2015 #6

thanks-- good analysis Fast Walker 52 Nov 2015 #9

Exactly! rusty fender Nov 2015 #11

Mr. Peabody! The POTUS used the Wayback Machine to re-visit 1961! WinkyDink Nov 2015 #4

Troops? I thought they said "boots on the ground"? kentuck Nov 2015 #7

special forces-- aren't they troops? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2015 #8