Past comes back to haunt us in form of Kissinger (Helen Thomas)

[struggle4progress]

By HELEN THOMAS
HEARST NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON -- .. Kissinger's message to the president and his top aides -- including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- was they should not give an inch and to stick it out in Iraq.

He maintained that Vietnam collapsed like a house of cards because the Nixon administration did not have time, focus, energy and political support and the American people did not have the will.

Actually, I recall things differently. As I remember it, thousands of Americans hit the streets to protest against the war. Neither President Nixon nor Lyndon B. Johnson before him could sell the public on the need to remain in Southeast Asia. Besides, Nixon was elected in 1968 on his campaign slogan that he had a plan to end the war.

A selective memory may be forgivable, but not when old men continue to want to send young men and women to far off places to fight but can't quite explain why ..

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/287821_thomas08.html

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Kissinger is the Perfect Addition to the Team!

Kissinger fits in perfectly with Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, and so forth. Brilliant... speaks with the authority of one who has both studied history and lived it... and absolutely out of his fuckin' mind.

None of these people is ever correct about anything.

[Vidar]

2. Helen nails it as usual.