War and its Aftermath

I just got this book and let me say this book speaks a lot of truth. Now the book itself doesn't speak about anything new that hasn't been recorded these last 60 years about FDR's foreign policy of baiting and the like against Germany and Japan to enter the war, but what was astounding to me was that Herbert Hoover wrote this book before, during, and after World War II when his popularity was in the toilet, while FDR's popularity was unprecedented (even to this day). It describes FDR's foreign policy that lead directly to World War II, and his policies during the war that lead directly to war in Korea and Vietnam (giving the Soviets Manchuria, letting China fall to Communism etc.) Of course to say such a thing back then (and even today) against FDR's foreign policy was near-treason in America.

It is ironic that the counter-culture and members of the American establishment denounced Vietnam as "Nixon's War!" when it was in fact liberals like FDR, Truman, JFK, etc. who set the stage for American troops being in Asia to begin with. Nevertheless we can see the timeline that lead FDR and Churchill to get the Western world involved in a war that was completely suicidal for it and has lead to the mess we are in now.

Sounds interesting. May look into it after Lent. Also, did not the Kennedy boys want out of Vietnam? And hence their early 'departures'?

Kennedy actually escalated Vietnam. By the time of Kennedy's departure there were almost three times as many American advisors in Vietnam as when he took the oath. Nevertheless both Kennedy and LBJ refused to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which lead to the Vietcong getting supplies from North Vietnam throughout the Vietnam War.