“They obviosuly represent an extravagant and profoundly misconceived undertaking, in which the relationship of military result to the resources committed is absurdly uneconomical, and which suffers further from the fact that it flies in the face both of the sensibilities of the world public and of the moral conscience of our own.”
Kennan, discussing American bombing raids in Vietnam in a 1967 letter to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Hi Clint: Just checking the blog, good to see you back. I will be checking all the blogs weekly. Thanks.
W.H.
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