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Originally Posted by jasdon11  As I understand it, the US didn't actually enter combat in Vietnam until 1965 - two years after JFK was killed. How do you blame it on a dead guy? | Its a fact that JFK escalated war in Vietnam. It was he who pushed for a bigger US role there. The war itself was brought on by French inaction to the growing communist threat led by China in 1959. Quote: |
And the Berlin Wall.....you surely can't credit the US in either putting it up or pulling it down - what next, gonna say an American discovered Europe?
| Ronald Reagan was mostly responsible for the fall of the Berlin wall. Since it coincides with the fall of the Soviet Union.
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