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In reply to the discussion: The good that came out of FDR does not out weigh the bad [View all]Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Sure LBJ was great on Civil Rights and for POC but that is overshadowed by the fact that he KNOWINGLY led upwards of 50,000 Americans and God only knows how many Vietnamese to their graves based on a LIE (So-called Gulf of Tonkin incident).
September 11th can be traced in a fairly straight line to Jimmy Carter's decision to "give the Soviets their Vietnam War" by sending aid to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.
John Kennedy not only presided over the Bay of Pigs debacle, he helped steer funding to Cuban exile groups that went on to commit acts of terror with the support of Bobby Kennedy.
Bill Clinton refused to send troops to Rwanda to stop the killing.
Barack Obama signed off on drone strikes that killed scores of civilians and his utilizing a fake vaccination drive to whack Osama Bin Laden led to real health workers being killed by suspicious Pakistanis and Afghanis.
Did FDR do some things we'd consider unthinkable now? Very much so but I'd still take FDR or JFK or Obama over the asshole we have now.