Vietnam was a Democrat Party war. LBJ deserves the lionshare of the blame, but JFK looked like he had every intention to start some crap in Vietnam. He had his fingerprints on the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem several weeks before his own demise to an assassin himself. JFK always gets a pass by historians because of his early death. Frankly, he would be preferable to any Democrat today, but let’s acknowledge the mistakes he made from the Bay of Pigs to Vietnam.
The bottom line is that the ineffective South Vietnamese government, which favored Catholics over the majority Buddhist population, lost the war.
And JFK was a Catholic, so that explains a lot why he wanted us to be in the war.
No argument from me on this.