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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109360 > go back another 10 years and you have Viet Nam Eisenhower was a
by runako 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109360
> go back another 10 years and you have Viet Nam
Eisenhower was a Republican when he committed forces to Vietnam.
- opo 5mo agoIf sending military advisors to a country is starting a war, the list of wars started by each President will get MUCH larger. (For some reason most people associate the Vietnam war with the President who deliberately lied to congress to get a use of force authorization and then literally sent over half a million troops into war.)