In the spring of 1954, with the French war effort collapsing, now Senator Kennedy supported a proposed international effort to try to save the Western position in Indochina (through a concept called “United Action”), but at the same time feared where such a policy would lead the nation. “To pour money, materiel, and men into the jungles of Indochina without at least a remote prospect of victory would be dangerously futile and destructive,” he declared.
