wasn’t the US intervention in Vietnam begun by a Democrat regime?????
Yes, the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu - May 07, 1954 and JFK decided to involve us in the remnants of a Vietnamese civil war. As a former US Naval officer, he decided to send in Seals as advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. Eventually "mission creep" brought the numbers to some 30,000 "advisers".
After his death in Dallas LBJ took over and staged an "incident" in the gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to expand the involvement to a full blown war. The rest is history.
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GtG