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To: puborectalis who wrote (782488)	4/28/2014 8:25:58 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577945

Fact is, JFK got us involved in the Viet Nam war ... he even sponsored a coup to overthrow a South Vietnamese President because he didn't like the way Diem was fighting the war against the Communists. Once Diem was dead, the US owned South Vietnam ... an early example of the you break it, you own it doctrine. "Supporting the Diem coup made the U.S. responsible for the outcome in South Vietnam in exactly the way Bobby Kennedy feared on October 29," said Dr. Prados. "Ironically, though, as the conversation continued, he and the other doubters abandoned these larger considerations and concentrated only on whether a coup would succeed - nothing else mattered." www2.gwu.edu