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To: Win Smith who wrote (159218)	3/17/2005 12:18:33 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) of 281500

re: following McNamara's path: The secretary of defense was a key figure in decisions to escalate the war between 1961 and 1965, and he readily concedes that the assumptions upon which he and his colleagues acted were badly flawed. They approached Vietnam, he recalls, with "sparse knowledge, scant experience and simplistic assumptions." Victims of their own "innocence and confidence," they foolishly viewed communism as monolithic, knew nothing about Indochina, and were "simple-minded" regarding the historical relationship between China and Vietnam. They badly misjudged Ho Chi Minh's nationalism and consistently overestimated South Vietnam's ability to survive. foreignaffairs.org So, I guess, sometime around 2040, Wolfowitz will be saying similar things about the neocons and Iraq... "A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun"

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