You are hugely overestimating American power 50 years ago. We were in the process of losing the Vietnam war, the Korean war was basically a draw, were unable to

You are hugely overestimating American power 50 years ago. We were in the process of losing the Vietnam war, the Korean war was basically a draw, were unable to impose our will on a tiny island nation 90 miles off of our cost, and we were on the verge of the 1973 oil crisis.