?? Lyndon Johnson didn’t get us into Vietnam, it was John F. Kennedy, from Massachusetts, who did that.[/quote]
Interesting that you quibble about whether it was Johnson or Kennedy and didn’t try to attack the underlying premise that Bush led us into a quagmire. Thanks!
Notably, Kennedy sent troops to Vietnam as advisors – and it was great for one’s military career in those days to be sent. We had no units in direct combat with the NVA or the VC until after Kennedy’s death, which you may recall was a big point made in the Hal Moore book (and later movie) about the first unit-sized encounters.
It also might be a bit unfair to call a war a “quagmire” when we just had a few guys serving as advisors to the South Vietnamese – its quagmireliness was not fully realized until Johnson got his big, puppy-ear-grabbing paws on the war. That might also be a good Republican rationale for saying our relatively miniscule troop involvement in Afghanistan is a “mess” and not yet a true “quagmire.” (Bet Rummy would like to use that argument someday! It’s OK, he can have it…)
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