[Leaning Right]

George W. Bush repeated darn near every mistake LBJ made in Vietnam.

Obama, Trump, and now Biden could do little to reverse any of that. The die was cast. Sure, Biden is incompetent. And because of that, our withdrawal from Afghanistan will be messy and expensive. But Biden didn’t make the mess in the first place. George W. Bush did.

[Chainmail]

Hey "Leaning Left" - you haven't answered me yet. The main mistakes LBJ did was to incrementalize our deployments and to micromanage targets on the mistaken belief that the NVA were rational - and the very real fear that if we directly invaded North Vietnam or attacked Soviet assets in North Vietnam, that they or the Chinese would enter the war directly.

But as far as the Vietnam War goes, it was necessary in that corner of the Cold War.

Trust me: I was there and invested some my own body in the process. The real shame for the American people and our Congress and eventually Gerald Ford was that we quit on the South Vietnamese.

[bert]

Blah blah blah I’m anti Bush yada yada yada .........BS BS BS.... self-righteous puritanism

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

” because of that, our withdrawal from Afghanistan will be messy and expensive”

Yes, but don’t let it stop us from leaving. It’s noneof our business,and never was.

“Not my monkeys, not my circus.”