"To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."
-- Walter Cronkite, February 28, 1968
It's just another case of history repeating itself ... and another case where no one who has the power is learning anything from it. We are being led down a garden path by a draft dodger who prides himself on not reading much and being a C student. He couldn't find oil in Texas. What makes anyone think he can find his way out of this mess?
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