| ▲ | KptMarchewa 4 hours ago | |
While Kennedy and then Johnson escalated US support to South Vietnam significantly, Eisenhower started it. | ||
| ▲ | triceratops 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
And Nixon prolonged it in order to win an election. [1] Regular people would call that treason. 1. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vie... | ||
| ▲ | runako 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
This point came up in a discussion of whether the Iran war is the first US war to be started and lost by the exact same team. Vietnam was floated, but they had a few shift changes before defeat was clear. | ||