MB Civic

By Bob Woodward and Gordon Goldstein | Sunday, October 17, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…In their final interviews, McNamara and Bundy dissected America’s failures in managing the Vietnam War. In haunting, mournful tones, they blamed not only Johnson and senior military leaders for a dysfunctional decision-making process, but also themselves. The interviews provide a singular look into what went wrong — as the two men saw it decades later, with the benefits and burdens of hindsight — at a time when President Obama and his national security team engage in intense deliberations over another complex, distant conflict, this time in Afghanistan and Pakistan….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503475_pf.html