We should never have gone into Somalia in the frist place. Nor into Vietnam.
Clinton was an awful president, but doing stupid things wasn't only his perview. It was Eisenhower who got us into Vietnam. What good came of that?
It was Nixon who got us out.
Actually it was LBJ who got us into the war with Vietnam through his lie about the Tonkin Guf incident that never happend. All what Eisenhower did was get 600 advisors in.
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Tonkin Gulf: August 1964
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As negative evidence accumulated, within a few days it came to seem less and less likely that any attack had occurred of August 4; by 1967 it seemed almost certain that there had been no second attack, and by 1971 I was convinced of that beyond a reasonable doubt. (In 1966, credible testimony from captured North Vietnamese officers who had participated in the August 2 attack refuted any attack on August 4. In late 1970, journalist Anthony Austin discovered and gave me evidence that intercepted North Vietnamese cables supposedly confirming an August 4 attack actually referred to the attack on August 2. Finally, in 1981, journalist Robert Scheer convinced Herrick—with new evidence from his ship's log—that his long-held belief in the first torpedo report was unfounded.) However,on August 4, given Herrick's repeated assurances and those of a number of seamen over the next few hours, I concluded that afternoon, along with everyone else I spoke to, that there probably had been an attack of some sort. At the same time, there was clearly a good chance that there had been one. In that light, Herrick's recommendation to pause and investigate seemed prudent, to say the very least: Reverse engines, stop the presses! But that's not how things were moving in Washington that Tuesday afternoon.
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
It was Nixon who got us out.
You are correct. Nixon got us out