On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:29:34 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:

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More and more, the reports from "our side" are beginning to represent
those reports we got from "our side" during the Vietnam debacle,
including the "body counts" of "enemies killed."

last paragraph
"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."
"This is Walter Cronkite. Good night."


"That's it.
If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
LBJ (President Johnson)


Some here are not old enough to remember.

When will our leaders come to their senses?

Answer:
You don't know.


http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change%20--Cronkite.html
http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Viet2.html

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