Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Three years prior to the 1968 devastating TET Offensive that cost thousands of deaths among both Viet Cong and U.S. soldiers, including hundreds of innocent civilians, and four years before America was losing one-thousand troops a month, Undersecretary of State George Ball wrote a memorandum entitled “A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam.” Ball, in 1965, was one of the few members in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration who was openly skeptical of the escalating American military campaign in South and North Vietnam. The memorandum sets forth his opposition to a deepening commitment and crisis, a commitment and crises that would…
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