• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    a) This headline forgets W losing Afghanistan

    b) Fuck Nixon, but Eisenhower deserves the blame for Vietnam (admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down, but still)

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      12 hours ago

      admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down

      I want to learn more about that. Got a recommendation?