Vietnam was a wet dream of the "conservative" progressives ... now known as neocons ... and of course was started by two RATS, JFK and especially one of our most corrupt Presidents, LBJ.
The "Progressive" rationale for the Vietnam War (and others) was to promote American "Values" BY FORCE, and make a bundle in the process.
Even the so-called "Domino Theory" proved bogus; which was one of the few "Logical" explanations for what we were doing there.
The Iraq War was another neocon (i.e., progressive) war, easily backed by progressives of both the left and the right.
Both these wars were disasters for America.
In my opinion, if Trump said so, he was right.
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LBJ did a lot of things while he was a POS president...the press knew better than to let the cats out of the bag, or they would be next...
LBJ so it is said, told people that after he signed something into law for the Black Americans that he said a very nasty quote...I will not repeat it here, but he said it because I heard him say it before the media could bleep it out...
He was dirty to the core, lied like you couldn't believe, stab you in the back while smiling at your face...
Worse thing that happen in America Politics...and Connelly at the time was Gov. of Texas and he was no better...
I have many thoughts of him being in on the killing of JFK...I went on that tour of Dallas, I don't think Oswald could have killed him...but I do believe that Poppy Bush, LBJ and Connelly had a lot to do with it...
WIKI: “After the French quit Indochina in 1954, the US assumed financial and military support for the South Vietnamese state.”
Eisenhower was first in, Kennedy exacerbated it and Johnson effed-it all up and handed it to Nixon.