It's always hard to know exactly where to lay the blame because our government sneaks around sticking its nose into the internal affairs of other countries, then when the excrement contacts the oscillator we blame the "enemy".
There was a slogan in the teens, "He kept us out of war." but when the Germans sunk the Lusitania he was forced to avenge the American dead. Sounds noble, don't it? Germany put notices in the American papers saying that any ship that was carrying munitions to England would be sunk were ignored, and the Lusitania was loaded with war materials. Their spies reported it to the U Boats and the rest is history.

Now, the fact that Truman was president when North Korea invaded South Korea is hardly a reason to blame him! They started shooting at our people! What was he supposed to do?

Now, if we dig a bit deeper, we find that Truman's secretary of State, Dean Acheson, made the statement that there is nothing in SE Asia that we need or care about is what gave the north Koreans the green light. They were amazed when we fought back. Talk about mixed messages.

Same thing happened in Iraq. Bush number one's Ambassador to Iraq told Saddam that we didn't care what he did in the middle east, so he decided it was a good time to take back Kuwait. We really don't learn from history, do we?
By the way Mike, I majored in American history at the University of Maine and came out with a "B" average. Do you think we were using the wrong books?

All politicians are crooks and thieves. The only thing we get to decide is which one is the worst or will do the least damage.

Consider this 8 trillion dollar national debt.