JFK’s recordings echo Afghan war

 
By The Associated Press | Published: November 8, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam’s strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Barack Obama’s quandary today in dealing with Afghanistan’s shaky government.

Obama is beset by questions about President Hamid Karzai’s popularity, honesty and management of the war against Taliban, while Kennedy dealt in 1963 with President Ngo Dinh Diem and his inability to turn the tide against Viet Cong insurgents.

Move questioned
Forty-six years ago this week, Vietnamese generals, confident they had the support of their U.S. allies, overthrew Diem’s government in Saigon. But Kennedy, conflicted by a State Department green light to the generals in their coup, questioned the move.

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