have we been here before?
Noted in his obituary
Halberstam, David,
The Best and the Brightest,
New York, Random House [1972]
p. 668
If the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the press
and the public had known of the extent of the
intelligence community's doubts, there would have
been a genuine uproar about going to war ...
p. 665
Time was on the side of the enemy, and we were in a
position of not being able to win, not being able to
get out ... only being able to lash out ... And so
the war went on, tearing at this country; a sense of
numbness seemed to replace an earlier anger. There
was, Americans were finding, no light at the end of
the tunnel, only greater darkness.
Are we condemned never to learn?