Hopelessly weak, naïve and incompetent

Dreading Obama’s JFK Moment

By Claude Sandroff
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Presidents can make historically awful decisions when the nation and the world begin to view their regimes as hopelessly weak, naïve and incompetent. It was at such an ebb in JFK’s presidency that the first American military troops arrived in Vietnam, providing an opportunity for Kennedy to show the world that he was no pushover.

The prolific and legendary historian William Manchester (a Kennedy family acolyte for over fifty years) wrote about that fateful decision in the introduction to his small volume on the Renaissance, “A World Lit Only by Fireâ€