President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
“If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.”
“The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.”