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Originally Posted by peter12
Sure he did. He started the carpet bombing in the North, escalated troop levels, and changed American Rules of Engagement.
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You're being facetious again. Just post what you actually think.
So why didn't he start out by launching a full scale invasion and take almost the entirety of his presidency to ramp up the war? If he actually wanted to wipe the Vietcong off the face of the earth, he could have and should have done it in 63/64.
The whole thing reeked of foreign policy gone bad. The whole idea behind containment was flawed to begin with and the guy didn't see that by sending troops he was actually making the situation much worse to begin with.