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Kennedy got us into Vietnam by botching the diplomacy in Laos. He invited the Russians into the mix. Dr. Tom Dooley, the medical missionary, wrote a book telling what happened.
It was Truman who sent the first "advisors" to aid the French in 1950.
When JFK took office there were 500 advisors in Vietnam. When he died there were 16,000. Before Ike sent that handful of men, Truman was paying the French to do the fighting for us.
TEAM KENNEDY got us into the Vietnam mess. JFK chose LBJ as his running mate and LBJ merely continued into the morass that Gigolo Jack blundered into.
After all, it was JFK that sent 17,000 troops into Vietnam. What would he have done after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, pulled them all out? I don't think so.
People vilify a hero like Pinochet, who at the loss of a mere 1,500 lives stopped Communism dead in Latin America and transformed Chile into the success story of Latin America, and the Socialists who followed him still have not managed to screw it all up.
JFK's initiatives got over a million killed and ended in abject failure, yet he is deified by both the left and right as some kind of hero.
For a grand finale, he almost started WWIII with Kruschev.
The only thing JFK did that I can admire is Marylin Monroe.