"For Kennedy, the problem of Vietnam was supposed to be resolved by his predecessor and by the partition of the country in 1954 into communist and non-communist spheres with Saigon secured by its own military forces. For Obama, the security of Iraq was supposed to be maintained by the creation of a viable army formed following his predecessor’s invasion of the country in 2003, facilitating an orderly American exit. Then as now, a prior solution to a messy geopolitical conflict did not cohere and the United States was forced to fashion a new strategy.
In both cases a vacuum of attention from American planners as well as the media preceded the eruption of crisis. In the spring of 1961, all eyes in Washington were focused on the aftermath of JFK’s disastrous foray into the Bay of Pigs. By autumn, however, the Kennedy administration was debating intervention in Vietnam amid swift gains by guerrilla forces. In spring 2014, official Washington was consumed by Vladimir Putin’s audacious power grab in Crimea. Just months later, CNN was breathlessly reporting that a marauding jihadi army controlled a 1,400-mile swath of territory across Syria and Iraq and was fast approaching Baghdad."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/obamas-jfk-problem-112946.html?hp=t3_r#.VGpPTfmG81I
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