Lucid Culture

On August 4, 1964, wanting to invade South Vietnam, the Lyndon Johnson administration claimed that a US warship, the Turner Joy, had been fired on by the Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. Using this as a pretext to justify the invasion, Johnson sought and won approval from Congress. Years later, Johnson admitted that the incident never occurred.

Today, US Navy Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, Commander of the US Fifth Fleet, stated that several small Iranian vessels moved rapidly on a collision course with a convoy of three US warships in the Straits of Hormuz, turning away just in time to avoid contact, then dropping unidentified white containers in the water near the last ship in the convoy, the USS Ingraham. He stated that the US ships were about to fire on the Iranian vessels until they suddenly changed direction, averting an exchange of gunfire.

Several months ago, battle orders were issued to US naval personnel stationed in the Persian Gulf.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.