Fault(y) Analysis

Get this, folks, Cliffy, over there at lydiacornell.com - he actually has the audacity to blame the entire Vietnam fiasco on Eisenhower. Eisenhower, of all people!! He sites, specifically, how, after the Geneva agreement of 1954, Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, helped install the pro-western (albeit, yes, authoritarian) regime of Diem in the south (something that any President of the day would have done but, whatever). Of course, what he /fails/forgets to mention is that it was Truman who initially provided aid to the French while THEY were the colonial power over there. He also forgets to document the fact that, despite a tremendous pressure to do so, Eisenhower prudently refrained from sending military assistance (i.e., troops) to the French at Dien Bien Phu (a restraint I doubt seriously Truman would have been able to muster)....and later, after the Geneva agreement (contrast this with LBJ/the escalation trap that he clearly fell prey to). And, besides, Kennedy, who succeeded Eisenhower, he could have tried to push for elections early on in his administration. But, no, BLAME THE REPUBLICAN ENTIRELY....AGAIN!!.........................................P.S. Not that this is surprising, mind you, the DNA of all those clowns over at Lydia's needing to blame Republicans, period! - yes, even the well-respected, liberal ones, for Christ!