Xah Lee's Unixism

[Walter Bushell]

In article <tqm7jqwrdxc.fsf at drizzle.com>,
 Patrick Scheible <kkt at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Morten Reistad <firstname at lastname.pr1v.n0> writes:
> 
> > I do not agree. Kennedy and  Clinton had a lousy foreign-policy
> > record. The Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, the Cuba crisis were all 
> > examples of glorious miscalculations. Ditto Rwanda, Somalia, and
> > the 
> 
> Vietnam was certainly a catastrophe, but the blame goes to Johnson,
> not Kennedy.  There were only a few thousand U.S. troops in training
> and advisory roles in Vietnam by Kennedy's assassination.  Johnson
> decided to escalate the war and have U.S. forces fight directly.
> 
> Even the best presidents can't have nothing but successes.  The Bay of
> Pigs was a failure, but at least Kennedy didn't compound the mistake
> by sending in U.S. troops where Cuban expats failed.
> 
> -- Patrick

His mistake, was IIRC, promising air cover and then not delivering. Hey, 
that's a mistake that has been made by real military leaders.

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