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Ronn

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May 3, 2012
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In foreign policy? He was only President for 3 years, and Vietnam was already happening. I’d say Truman.

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JFK allowed Bay of Pigs to happen and started major US involvement in Vietnam… :shifty:
Bay of pigs was a major success for him but in anything else JFK was not really an important president. His domestic policy was stalled in Congress too before LBJ gave it a push.
 
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swag

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Dude was riddled with Addison’s disease and had to pedal around the Oval Office in a model PT-109. No wonder his foreign policy was toast.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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In foreign policy? He was one President for 3 years, and Vietnam was already happening. I’d say Truman.

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Bay of pigs was a major success for him but in anything else JFK was not really an important president. His domestic policy was stalled in Congress too before LBJ gave it a push.
Bay of Pigs was a major success? I thought it was a disaster?

Agree on Truman. Nixon/Kissinger were pretty good foreign policy wise too. Clinton did alright too.
 

Ronn

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May 3, 2012
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Bay of Pigs was a major success? I thought it was a disaster?

Agree on Truman. Nixon/Kissinger were pretty good foreign policy wise too. Clinton did alright too.
I’m sorry I mixed it up with missile crisis. Bay of pigs was a disaster.

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Bay of Pigs was the opposite of success

He’s thinking of the missile crisis
Mind reader
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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Bay of Pigs was a major success? I thought it was a disaster?

Agree on Truman. Nixon/Kissinger were pretty good foreign policy wise too. Clinton did alright too.
Clinton? Meh. Maybe ask the Balkan folks how he was, or the fact that Bin Laden supposedly carried out all of those attacks around the world and then planned 9/11 on his watch.
 

Post Ironic

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Clinton? Meh. Maybe ask the Balkan folks how he was, or the fact that Bin Laden supposedly carried out all of those attacks around the world and then planned 9/11 on his watch.
Are you kidding? The Balkan states almost entirely love Clinton lol.

You could say Rwanda and Somalia. Although according to your philosophy Clinton did the right thing by not getting involved in Rwanda :p

So because Bin Laden planned 9/11 while Clinton was president, an attack that happened almost a year after he was out of office, that the Bush admin was warned about repeatedly, it’s his fault? :rofl:I guess we blaming Trump for every terror attack that happened under him and under Biden now. Or does this only count when Democrat in office? Lol I thought you constantly bash the war on terror overseas, but now you are saying Clinton should have begun it. At least be consistent lol

Clinton stayed out of getting the US involved in long term wars overseas. And the one he did get involved in, the Balkans, was just an aerial bombardment that wasn’t protracted and long drawn out, and is widely considered a success to this day. Lol
 
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Ronn

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May 3, 2012
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Are you kidding? The Balkan states almost entirely love Clinton lol.

You could say Rwanda and Somalia. Although according to your philosophy Clinton did the right thing by not getting involved in Rwanda :p

So because Bin Laden planned 9/11 while Clinton was president, an attack that happened almost a year after he was out of office, that the Bush admin was warned about repeatedly, it’s his fault? :rofl:I guess we blaming Trump for every terror attack that happened under him and under Biden now. Or does this only count when Democrat in office? Lol I thought you constantly bash the war on terror overseas, but now you are saying Clinton should have begun it. At least be consistent lol

Clinton stayed out of getting the US involved in long term wars overseas. And the one he did get involved in, the Balkans, was just an aerial bombardment that wasn’t protracted and long drawn out, and is widely considered a success to this day. Lol
Clinton’s response to AlQaeda bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was inadequate though. He ordered bombing of a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant.
 

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