25 November 2008

McCain got it right, then got it wrong

A friend just showed me a copy of “The Best and the Brightest” by David Halberstam, 1972, which has a foreward by John McCain. The last couple of paragraphs are utterly wise about why the U.S. lost in Vietnam, but they also apply directly to W’s Iraq misadventure, which McCain facilitated. If only McCain had re-read his own insights before sending Americans off to die in the desert ...

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