The Nation: Round 3: More Pentagon Disclosures

"The dilemma of the U.S. involvement dating from the Kennedy era," wrote the authors of the Pentagon study on the Viet Nam War in 1967, was to apply "only limited means to achieve excessive ends." Last week, as additional parts of the Pentagon papers were published, the new documents continued to show a disturbing pattern of inexperience and ignorance at the highest levels of the U.S. Government, cynicism about America's Vietnamese "allies," and an unwillingness in Washington to abandon official policies even after they had proved to be failures. Examples:

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