Resolving Our Vietnam Predicament
December, 1967
A Singular and well-observed feature of war is for the view in retrospect to depart radically from that which attended the beginning. Dangers that at the outset of hostilities seemed to justify the most sanguinary steps, in the perspective of years seem slight, sometimes frivolous. And prospects that at the beginning of conflict seemed easy and brilliant come to measure only the depth of the miscalculation. The case of men who in the past 30 years have planned expeditions against Moscow, Pearl H...
