Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The author's main thesis is that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Maddux could have been fake, and that thousands of lives could have been taken because of a lie. It's very contreversial. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was when Congress agreed to send troops into Vietnam to defend US interests after a ship supposedly attacked the Maddux. Goldberg's evidence is that Lyndon B. Johnson didn't say that the Maddux was attacked under oath, and that he easily could have lied and magnified this fake event to send troops into Vietnam. This links to the Dubious Crusade in that this was another point along the US crusade to contain communism and promote democracy that was uncertain, because it was definetely uncertain if going to Vietnam was worth it, and that all those deaths could have been avoided.