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Road to Kabul via Saigon
By John Young
Like Afghanistan, Vietnam was a bipartisan debacle.
From Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford. Wait. Ford?
Gerald – yeah. The “accidental president” was the one who, like Joe Biden, made the call to end a futile and interminable war, then presided over the chaos that followed.
As a presidential candidate, Richard Nixon illegally used back channels to subvert the Paris Peace Talks so that once elected he, not Lyndon Johnson, could claim to have delivered peace.
Instead W...