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I grew up reading communist history textbooks which consistently claim that the 1st Gulf of Tonkin incident (on August 2, 1964) did take place but American warships were the aggressors and North Vietnam was provoked, the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin incident (on August 4), however, was completely fabricated by the U.S. government to give President Lyndon Johnson a free hand in Vietnam to take “all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.”I can quote those Vietnamese books here, but some of you foreigners will dismiss them as communist propaganda. So I think it would be better to quote some Western sources:Starting with the SOB Lyndon Johnson himself: “Hell, those dumb, stupid U.S. sailors were just shooting at flying fish” (meaning: no North Vietnamese boats)After the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed, the architect of the Resolution - National Security Adviser Walter W. Rostow - said : “We don’t know what happened but it had the desired result”Johnson was delighted about the Resolution giving him a blank check to do whatever the hell he wanted in Vietnam without further reference to Congress: “Like Grandma’s nightshirt, it [the Resolution] covers everything”.William S. Turley wrote in his book “The Second Indochina War”: On August 4, on an extremely dark night and in bad weather, the Maddox accompanied by the destroyer C. Turner Joy fired on radar objects their commanders believed were attacking them. The captain of the Maddox quickly developed doubts that the objects were attack craft, as the evidence of an attack was contradictory. In fact, as a meticulous study by Edwin Moise has shown, the second attack on the Maddox never took place. Nonetheless, President Johnson seized on what he probably did believe at the time was a real attack to justify retaliatory airstrikes against the North and to extract special war powers from Congress.Nigel Cawthorne wrote in his book “Vietnam: A war lost and won”: Long before the war was over, it was discovered that the Gulf of Tonkin incident as portrayed by the administration was a fraud. Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearings in 1968 established that any North Vietnamese action in the Gulf of Tonkin was far from unprovoked. The Maddox had been involved in covert actions against North Vietnam. It was also established that plans to bomb North Vietnam had been drawn up before the Gulf of Tonkin incident.Added Later:U.S. Navy Pilot Jim Stockdale who flew his F8 Crusader in support of the US destroyer on the night of August 4th:He walked into the ready room, and his squadron mates asked “What the hell has been going on out there?”“Damned if I know,” Jim said. “It’s really a flap. The guy on the Maddox air control radio was giving blow-by-blow accounts … turning left, turning right, torpedoes to the right of us, torpedoes to the left of us—boom, boom, boom! I got right down there and shot at whatever they were shooting at.”“Did you see any boats?”“Not a one,” he answered. “No boats, no boat wakes, no ricochets off boats, no boat gunfire, no torpedo wakes.”The commander of the two U.S. destroyers, Captain John Herrick, cabled a telling flash message that advised:“Review of action makes many recorded contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects and overeager sonarmen may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings by Maddox. Suggest complete evaluation before any further actions.”Now that you’ve heard from both sides, draw your own conclusion.

10 years ago. It was the living room of a quiet house in a small town in India. Seated there, at the edge of their seats, were three young guys in their late teens. The tension in the room was palpable. Their eyes were glued to the TV. As an outside observer, I know the reader has questions. What is so gripping about the old-fashioned girl-on-girl porn they are watching? Are these teens anxious to find out whether the older girl is able to properly teach the younger girl how to satisfy her boyfriend?Interrupting the enchanting pop sound-track of the movie, spoke guy_1, “Do you think we will be able to finish the movie before your parents return?” Guy_2 chimed in, “Yeah, do you think we should fast forward a bit?”Guy_3 pointed to the women on TV, who, by that time, were moaning at a pitch attainable only by Vampire bats, and said, “The movie can’t be much longer. It’s only 8:50. Mom and dad wont’ be back before 9. We will have enough time to finish the movie and have a smoke before they arrive.”Noticing the discomfort on their faces, Guy_3 explained his master plan. “Listen, If I hear them at the main door, I will run and intercept them. I will buy you enough time to retrieve the cassette out of the VCR and hide it in my room. It’s as simple as that.” Reassured they went back to watching the tangle of limbs on the screen and trying to figure out whose hand is doing what to which body part.The reassurance lasted for about 5 minutes until the TV screen went blank. As darkness descended in the room, their hearts stopped with the realization that the power just went out. “Holy shit!” shouted one of them, “How the hell are we going to get the tape out of the VCR?” Another guy chose a stronger swear word, more appropriate for the occasion, and proceeded to repeat it with different stress each time. “Fuck fuck fuck…” Out of this chaos boomed the nonchalant voice of Guy_3, “Guys, let’s not panic. We are engineers. We can take the VCR apart in 2 minutes and get the cassette out.”At any other time Guy_1 and Guy_2 would have sat Guy_3 down and discussed: 1. How wrong he was when he said “we are engineers” when there is no hope of their passing second year of engineering. 2. How opening up VCRs is not remotely connected to their engineering curriculum. 3. How they would love to kick Guy_3 in the nuts for not panicking. But they didn’t,because opening the VCR was the best idea at that time.With impressive speed the VCR was opened. It didn’t take them too long to figure out that VCRs are not like candy boxes which you open and grab whatever you want from them. In fact, the “Star Whores Episode IV: A new hole” video tape was locked in some intricate mechanism which was difficult to study in the candlelight. At which point Guy_1 asked, “Guys, don’t you think it would look more suspicious if we are caught with an open VCR? How would we explain it?” With this new insight into the situation the VCR was assembled back.After half an hour, the power did not come back but the parents did. The three guys nervously wandered around the living room hoping the power would be restored before the living room was locked from inside for the night. The power was restored soon after but with one glitch. Guy_3′s mom was immediately heard saying, “Oh good the power’s back. Let me turn off the TV so we can go bed.” Guy_3 sprang to action shouting, “Mom can I talk to you privately in the kitchen?”It is inconsequential what irrelevant matter Guy_3 discussed in the kitchen or the fact that his mom was heard saying, “OK, but why do we have to talk about it now?”. Nevertheless the video tape was transferred to safety before the discussion ended.Different people react differently to the same situation. Guy_1 didn’t stop trembling for a week. Guy_2 asked later that night, “Those girls were amazing. Do you think we can manage to see it again tomorrow?” Guy_3 wrote about it 10 years later.

Radha works at a big MNC in Bengaluru and draws thick paycheck. She is married and her husband also works in MNC. The couple stay in a rented apartment and are leading s comfortable life. Because of their busy schedule they found it difficult to manage household works such as sweeping, cleaning vessels. So they “outsourced” this task to a domestic worker named Shanta for Rs. X per month.The IT couple spent most of their time outside their home and they have perks of free breakfast, lunch and snacks at their office. They only had to prepare dinner at home. So eventually Shanta's work was less as she had to wash very less utensils.Few months later, on one Sunday morning Radha and her husband were discussing to buy an apartment in a posh society and were researching about loan offered by banks. Shanta finished that day’s work, went straight to Radha and requested her to increase her monthly pay by Rs. 0.1XOn hearing this Radha rejected her appeal quoting “Shanta, you have very less work at our home, sometimes on weekends we ask you not to come and you take many day off without prior information to which we don't say anything…why should we increase your pay…sorry this is not possible”.Shanta didn't put any argument and silently dismissed from there.Later that day, the couple freezed their investment plan and sought their uncle who works in ABC bank for loan options and approximate EMI for the desired loan amount.EMI what was roughly calculated, they found that it would eat up their 40% of salary, and they will be in financial crunch. So they decided to speak with their manager for a raise.Next day, Radha approached her manager and asked for a raise. Her manager quoted “Radha, the project on which you are working has come to closure, almost all tasks are completed we can expect very minor changes in next few months, so it is not possible to honor your demand”.Hearing this with a disappointed face Radha returned back to her seat.Staring blankly at her monitor, she recalled incident with Shanta, she did same thing with Shanta what her manager did to her, she thought Shanta might be in need of money so she asked for raise and whatever amount she pays her monthly is almost equal to amount spent on dinner in some fancy restaurant, increasing it by some small percentage will not harm anything.So very next day, she promised Shanta to pay 0.2X rupees monthly. Shanta was very happy hearing this and Radha was happy to help a needy person.So most of us here is Radha, we get irritated when domestic worker ask for 100 or 200 rupees extra per month. In metropolitan area on an average these domestic worker get Rs. 1200 to Rs. 1500 per month, just visiting a pub or a restaurant on one evening we spend even more than this, doing charity just to save tax or due to peer pressure doesn't help, small actions from you will make a big difference in them, offer tea, food, give them clothes, pay them little more during festival seasons etc…they will bless you for these!!Irony is that people tend to pay less to their lower subordinate and expect more from their higher subordinates. They expect their lower subordinate to work without taking any leave and they want a week off for a vacation with their family.Karma has its plan!!! What you give, you will receive.