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Vietnam.

• triceratops 5mo ago
  That was more than a half-century ago.
• KptMarchewa 5mo ago
  While Kennedy and then Johnson escalated US support to South Vietnam significantly, Eisenhower started it.
  • triceratops 5mo ago
    And Nixon prolonged it in order to win an election. [1] Regular people would call that treason. 1. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-conspired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vie...
  • runako 5mo ago
    This point came up in a discussion of whether the Iran war is the first US war to be started and lost by the exact same team. Vietnam was floated, but they had a few shift changes before defeat was clear.