The memorandum begins by disclosing the rationale behind the bombing of North Vietnam in February 1965: The February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only if they are in support of a long-run United States policy to contain China.
备忘录从揭露1965年2月对北越轰炸的原因开始： 二月轰炸北越的决定和七月批准第一阶段部署的计划只有在贯彻美国长期以来圍堵中国的政策下才有意义。