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IndianaGreen

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Sat Sep-26-09 02:18 PM
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3. Obama is facing the same situation that JFK faced in 1963 with Vietnam

JFK sent more military advisers, and got involved in the Diem coup. In the Fall of 1963, JFK had to decide to fish or cut bait. His advisers wanted him to escalate the war. While no public announcement was ever made, after JFK was assassinated, several of JFK's closest advisers said that JFK had overruled the Pentagon and his ambassador to Vietnam and decided to de-escalate the war and America's involvement in it.

There is no way to tell what would have happened had JFK lived to see his new policy implemented.

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