Aiken Republican on the radio    60,000
    Northvietnamese troops now infiltrated but over 250,000
    South Vietnamese       armed men
                                                    our Enemy —
                                                            Not Hanoi our enemy
                                                            Not China our enemy
                                                                     The Viet Cong!
                                                    McNamara made a “bad guess”
“Bad Guess?” chorused the Reporters.
          Yes, no more than a Bad Guess, in 1962

...As a result I hate literary critics, who have been described to me as remembling, you should excuse the expression, eunuchs in a harem: they can observe, study, and analyze, but they can't do it themselves.

# posted by Gerry Canavan @ 11:27 AM  |