What Is Hoover's Involvement In The Vietnam War

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Jonathan Gabriel
US History 17B
14 April 2018
The Terror of Communism Commies deserve no protection and they have no rights at all. (Pg. 5) The terror of everyone against communist are tremendous that leaders such as Hoover and Hook will use any means necessary to eliminate them period. Hoover was strongly anti-communist and saw it as a threat to American and the world. (Pg.130) Sidney Hook was more lenient and was a pragmatist. (Pg. 264-265) The United States backed many dictators that were themselves also fascist. Fascism and the right wing authorized terrorism but hook didn’t agree with these. Hoover went by the old adage; the enemy of my friend is my friend. However, Hook was still an anti-communist but he agreed with the war in Vietnam, though the opposition movement lead to the neo-liberalism we see today. …show more content…

Hook disagreed with both new forms and he was part of the two wrongs don’t make a right school thought. (Pg.132-133) The whole calamity in Central America and Iran Hook didn’t agree with them. Hoover though saw it as a crushing of communism. However, to stress this enough, both were anti-communist and one was anti-authoritarian. Hoover was on the other hand, over and beyond authority. (Pg. 129-130) He spied on everyone and had giant file information on all Washington’s prominent political players. Hook would say these are dictatorships and can’t be trusted but Hoover would say these regimes do what is necessary to prevent communism. (Pg.31-33) Hook wants economic liberalism but does not want high authority which mostly equality but freedom to trade. Today, McCarthyism was born out of

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