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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.