Back when it became obvious that the Communists would win the forthcoming
reunification election in Vietnam, JFK's Whiz Kids asked senior military
leaders to prepare options for a military solution in 'nam should we decide
to cancel the election. The options presented were 1) Nuke the USSR (We had
a first strike capability in those days), 2) A naval blockade coupled with
bombing the roads and rail lines in China. Note that the men who'd fought
WW2 and Korea never even considered an invasion. Asked why, they explained
that we'd beat the Axis and the Chinese in Korea by destroying their
factories and/or transportation infrastructure thus keeping supplies from
reaching their troops, and Ho's factories were in the USSR and his supply
lines were in China. They were appalled by McNamara's suggestion of a grunt
on grunt war because "they make new soldiers faster than we can make
bullets". But JFK's Whizzers were smarter than generals cuz they were Ivy
League! So they scraped the barrel for somebody who'd agree and went ahead
and blew $billions and 1000 of American lives - and failed because, guess
what, the Vietnamese made soldiers faster than we made bullets. As
predicted, we won every battle but lost the war. Meanwhile, the USSR
consolidated it's hold on Cuba and moved into South America!

We are currently buying war surplus ammo from Israel and the UK, the dudes
who perped 9-11 still elude us, and militant Islam grows stronger worldwide.

Anybody see a similarity between JFK's folly and GWB's misadventure?