"Kennedy's policy towards South Vietnam rested on the assumption that Diem and his forces must ultimately defeat the guerrillas on their own. He was against the deployment of American combat troops and observed that "to introduce U.S. forces in large numbers there today, while it might have an initially favorable military impact, would almost certainly lead to adverse political and, in the long run, adverse military consequences."




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Kennedy increased the number of U.S. military advisers from 800 to 16,300 to cope with rising guerrilla activity. "





Sounds like Obama talking out of both sides....