It’s a last century rite (or right)of passage, to show you are tough, firm, patriotic, a man - - and ought to be reelected. Invade a country. In your second year in office.
Kennedy, Cuba, 1961
Johnson, Vietnam (escalated), 1965
Nixon, Cambodia
Carter, ?
Reagan, Grenada, 1981; Nicaragua (via contras), 1985
Bush, Iraq, 1989
W. Clinton, Kosovo bombing (with NATO), 1999
Bush, Afghanistan, Iraq
Obama, ?
H. Clinton, TBA, 2018
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