So JFK didn’t get us into the war the military and Eisenhower didn’t want, Eisenhower himself would have had to start the Vietnam war if his time in office had stretched to 2 more years?
You seem devoted to JFK mythology, that’s for sure.
“You seem devoted to JFK mythology, that’s for sure.”
And on occasion you post incredibly stupid comments, that being one of them. Kindly keep your ignorant speculations about what I think to yourself.
I happen to be very familiar with how our involvement in Vietnam developed. I lived it beginning with my dad’s tour in 1962. We had Vietnamese officers rotating through our home for years as they came to the states for training. Most Americans didn’t know the place existed when it was a daily part of my life.
Eisenhower was dealing with a lower level insurgency than what Kennedy dealt with. But if Ike had two more years in office and had to deal with it he wouldn’t have used the half measures and gradual escalation that JFK, LBJ and Nixon used to conduct the war. That just helped North Vietnam.
North Vietnam was the root of the insurgency and it had only two major cities. Instead of screwing around with counter insurgency campaigns and sporadic bombing, Hanoi and Haiphong harbor would have been treated to something out of Curtis LeMay’s handbook. The Marines wouldn’t have gone to shore in South Vietnam, they would have landed in the North and occupied it. There was no reason the war had to drag on.