![]() ![]() Bush’s war in Iraq, by the time Kennedy became president, he was saddled with Truman’s and then Eisenhower’s Vietnam. But much as President Obama inherited George W. ![]() Kennedy in 1951, reporting on his return home that France was foolishly trying to cling to an empire even as the people of Vietnam rejected the French-installed Vietnamese puppet government. Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader, 2002, etc.) opens his long, deeply complex narrative with a little-known event: namely, a fact-finding mission to Vietnam on the part of then-Sen. Logevall (International Studies and History/Cornell Univ. Comprehensive history of the early years of what in Vietnam is called “the American War”-the time in which one Western power took the place of another, only for both to be defeated. ![]()
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