"A handful of poli-sci geniuses got us into the Vietnam War" http://www.salon.com/2014/09/14/all_these_effing_geniuses_ezra_klein_expert_driven_journalism_and_the_phony_washington_consensus/ …
@speechboy71 Yes, I know -- it's incredibly inane. Amazing how people blame Vietnam on advisers more than LBJ.
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@HeerJeet Yes it's amazing, -
@speechboy71@HeerJeet One could blame LBJ for getting us in, or Kissinger in '68 for prolonging it, or the colony loving French, or hubris
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@HeerJeet@speechboy71 Also, few of the "best and the brightest" Halberstam chronicles were actually scholarly experts. -
@pashulman@speechboy71@HeerJeet MacNamara had an MBA and was president of Ford Motor Company. Mac Bundy didn't have grad degree - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@speechboy71 From flap: McNamara, McGeorge & William P. Bundy, Rusk, George Ball, Westmoreland, Maxwell Taylor, Kennedy & Johnson -
@pashulman@HeerJeet Also I love the best and the brightest, but it is far from a definitive history of Vietnam - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@speechboy71 Of those, only McNamara & McGeorge had academic appointment (both @ Harvard), but both were decidedly weird.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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