did kennedy intend to withdraw troops from vietnam?

On the other half some people believe that Kennedy had no intention of withdrawing from Vietnam as he strongly believed in the Domino Theory with was set forward by Eisenhower. The theory was that if one country became Communist, the other counties surrounding would also follow suit, becoming Communist. This would threaten the U.S’s global position. Kennedy believed that if he surrendered to Vietnam, he would be surrendering to Communist rule. This situation was unthinkable for Kennedy and he had no intention of letting Communism spread. Leading Kennedy to enter as many troops as it took to stop Communism. Kennedy had 3 opportunities to withdraw troops form Vietnam such as the Buddha Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis and Conference on Vietnam. At all of these occasions he still continued to enter troops to Vietnam, clearly showing that Kennedy had no intention of withdrawing from Vietnam. Diem’s government was self-distructing, yet Kennedy still did not withdraw, but he tried to improve the political situation. Kennedy had a clear reason now to withdraw, as Diem’s distructing government may also affect America’s government. But still no withdrawal.

My thoughts are that Kennedy had no intention of withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Kennedy had several chances to withdraw, and never even a hinted the beginning of a withdrawal. My believes are that Kennedy may have wanted to withdraw, but was unable to, from strong influences, such as McNamara, who was a military man himself, leading to military solutions. Kennedy never helped himself as in his opening speech he basically said that he would fight in Vietnam. He had to keep his word, even if it was not the right direction to be leading. Kennedy may have wanted to withdraw but he clearly had to choice but to continue. Kennedy had started to plan withdrawing troops but never actually did. I believe that Kennedy may have wanted to start to withdraw troop but slowly. Kennedy did not want to surrender to the communists, as this is against his religion.  In conclusion Kennedy may have planned to withdraw troop but never actually did so this is overwhelming evidence that Kennedy was more likely to have continued fighting in Vietnam.