The Vietnam war, as we know it, for all intents and purposes, began under Kennedy, in 1961.
Furthermore, to expand on Sammitch's point, when you equate going on vacation during a war right up there with decades of pillaging from your own citizens, causing your country to be placed under a suffocating embargo, or triggering two wars that laid waste to your homeland, it tends to demonstrate nothing so much as your own desire to filter everything through some sort of false moral equivilancy.
