Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam
 

Spooky...

During the summer of 1967, then CIA Director Richard Helms asked for a quiet review of the global political and strategic consequences of an American failure in Vietnam. The result was a classified memorandum circulated on Sept. 11, 1967, “Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam,” which detailed a lengthy list of potential dark outcomes and worrisome prospects.

Excerpts from this document—with only minor edits—offer eerie parallels to the very different set of circumstances the United States faces today in Iraq. In considering the Iraq war’s endgame, the U.S. government would be wise to review its own notes.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3866&page=0

Learn? Yeah, right.

McNamara - er, I mean Rumsfeld - simply did not want to know what the military was telling him. Dogma over facts. If you don't like the answers, change them or ignore them. This mess was both predictable and avoidable.

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubid=182