US Presidents Not Good at Ending Wars
Failed Wars: Drugs, Vietnam, Terror
 

Latest: Afghanistan       6,000
11 years, 3
Presidents, many Fatalities

Worst: Vietnam      50,000

Eisenhower and Reagan Were Best

Return to Maintaining International Order
 

Latest: Afghanistan Withdrawal

   

 

Approximate Fatalities Activity Withdrawal Period  
  Bush 2 4,507 Maintain Status Quo 8 years  
  Obama 1,752 Tried to win,
then began withdrawal
6 years  
  Trump 65 Minor Military Activity,
Withdrawal  Left it to successor
4 years  

 

 
Biden 13 Withdrew 8 months  
 

Casualty (defense.gov)

Bush 2's reaction to 9/11
soon morphed into a controversial metaphor "War on Terror."
Unlike Nixon in Vietnam, or Obama and Trump in Afghanistan,
Biden cut his loses and left quickly and completely

 

 

 

Worst Vietnam

Communism Taking Over the World,
 the Domino Theory
caused the Vietnam War.
President Nixon believed theory was incorrect,
 but Continued War to Maintain US Creditability.

 

Eisenhower and Reagan Were Best