[zulux]

Vietnam.

[KptMarchewa]

While Kennedy and then Johnson escalated US support to South Vietnam significantly, Eisenhower started it.

[triceratops]

And Nixon prolonged it in order to win an election. [1] Regular people would call that treason.

1. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vie...

[runako]

This point came up in a discussion of whether the Iran war is the first US war to be started and lost by the exact same team. Vietnam was floated, but they had a few shift changes before defeat was clear.

[triceratops]

That was more than a half-century ago.