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No everyone wasn’t advocating peace. Just more bs by you. JFK fully intended to pull out of Vietnam, but you silly deniers need to believe lies to promote your silly beliefs.Yea...everyone was advocating peace in Vietnam in 1963.You’re uninformed. JFK changed dramatically while in the White House, from his days as a hardened cold warrior. He gave a speech not long before he was murdered, that people like you ignore. Guess what? It’s call the Peace Speech. He also was covertly negotiating with Khrushchev to end the Cold War. He was in constant disagreement with the JCS and many others in his administration who wanted war. He intended to pull out of Vietnam as soon as he was re-elected. All these things are ignored or minimized by people like you.Many disagree, but you wouldn’t know this.JFK would have followed the same path that LBJ did in VietnamHad JFK not been ruthlessly murdered by a cabal of criminals, we would have.We should have gotten out in 1964
He had the same advisors
Those who martyr JFK think he is incapable of making a wrong decision. Any President in 1965 would have done the same as LBJ. Nixon, Goldwater AND JFK would not have passed on an opportunity to fight communism. It would have ruined their careers
Then Diem was assassinated (three weeks before JFK) and the South went into turmoil. North Vietnam was on the verge of overtaking the South unless they received military aid.
LBJ wanted no part of putting American troops on the ground. But he was adamant that “Vietnam won’t turn communist on my watch” and his military advisers and Secretary of Defense MacNamara (same as LBJ had) all said we needed a few ground troops to turn back the tide and we would be home by Christmas.
LBJ took the bait. So would have JFK