Fifty years ago this week, Kennedy gave his historic inaugural address—and soon after blundered into the Bay of Pigs. Newsweek's Evan Thomas on how Obama can avoid a similar fate in Afghanistan.
Appearances can deceive. We picture John F. Kennedy's inauguration, 50 years ago this week, through a warm haze of nostalgia and regret. How romantic it seems now, how far away, and how unlike our own dreary time.
