“That’s a false comparison. LBJ must take 100% of the blame for the Vietnam debacle. LBJ set it all in motion. But Obama did not set the Iraq debacle in motion. Bush II did.”
Nope. Saddam Hussein set it in motion with the invasion of Kuwait. We were still at war with Iraq when Dubya (Bush II) was elected. We had won in Iraq, it was pacified, when Obama decided to pull out the remaining troops. We kept them in Germany for decades. Then Obama exacerbated the situation by destablizing Syria, Libya, and Egypt with the “Arab Spring” and supplying weapons and who knows what intell to ISIS backers.
We know that he supported nukes for Iran since his candidacy in 2008 at least.
His policy in Afghanistan is another disaster.
What was so great about Kuwait? They are just another backward Muslim country, what do I care if Saddam had it? It was just an intra-Arab squabble that we had no business meddling in.
There's truth in that. But Saddam's invasion of Kuwait did not make a full-blown US invasion of Iraq necessary.
Many Democrats try to give LBJ a pass on Vietnam by going back in the time-line, then saying it was Ike's fault because he sent in the first military advisors. I'm not buying that. LBJ chose to ramp it up, and he sure did.
Same goes with Bush II. He chose to ramp it up, and he sure did.