What are LBJ's thoughts on the war?
and, once again, how does the US get
further drawn into war?

What are LGB’s thoughts on the war?

“As a senator, he had embraced “containment theory”, which predicted that if Vietnam fell to Communists, other Southeast Asian nations would do the same. Johnson was deeply sensitive about the judgement of history, and he did not want to be remembered as a President who lost Southeast Asia to Communism.”