Is Afghanistan Obama's Vietnam?

Foreign-policy advice from John F. Kennedy

"Only a handful of times in our history has a generation been confronted with challenges so vast [including] two wars, one that needs to be ended responsibly, one that needs to be waged wisely."

 — Barack Obama, January 17, 2009, in a speech in Philadelphia

"All war is stupid."

 — John F. Kennedy, in a letter written aboard his PT boat in the

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