{"id":3730,"date":"2020-10-26T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:20:06","slug":"post-10-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/26\/post-10-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Post 10\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zinn states in this chapter that once again the reason for the United States of America entering the war was not just. Lyndon B. Johnson entered the war over events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin, but it is stated that there was actually no open aggression against America.\u00a0 American leaders often commit to wars without fully weighing the implications of the war and the impact it will have on the American people.\u00a0 Johnson did not ask for permission from congress before deploying troops in Vietnam, which makes the government seem like a dictatorship.\u00a0 Is the American government so disorganized that it can not even enforce its policies within the white house?\u00a0 Learning this from the reading makes me even more worried about the upcoming elections, because the wrong president has even more power than I thought.\u00a0 After reading this, I would like to learn more about the strength of checks and balances in the American democracy today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think there is an interesting connection between the actions of American military officers in Vietnam and police officers today.\u00a0 Zinn describes military officers murdering women, children, and elderly and trying to cover it up.\u00a0 Some of the officers failed to cover it up, and they were tried for their actions.\u00a0 Only one military officer was convicted.\u00a0 Police brutality in America is in the spotlight along with the black lives matter movement.\u00a0 It is very disappointing to know that we made these mistakes in the act of war, and we are continuing to make these mistakes within our own borders.\u00a0 There are clearly problems with the American legal system if people can get away with doing horrible things like the things described above.\u00a0 History continues to repeat itself in different forms, and it is disappointing to see we are not improving the country at a significant rate.\u00a0 I think Zinn\u2019s historical book is a must read for anyone pursuing public office in America.\u00a0 If people in office can learn from all the many mistakes Zinn outlines throughout American history, I believe the country will be much better off.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zinn states in this chapter that once again the reason for the United States of America entering the war was not just. Lyndon B. Johnson&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/26\/post-10-28\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post 10\/28<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}