Comments on: My latest read – The Best and The Brightest http://donkasprzak.com/2007/07/01/my-latest-read-the-best-and-the-brightest/ Conversations regarding Globalization, Internet2 and Education Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:09:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pentagon Papers (Part IV-C.4. Evolution of the War. Marine Combat Units Go to Da Nang, March 1965 | Don Kasprzak http://donkasprzak.com/2007/07/01/my-latest-read-the-best-and-the-brightest/comment-page-1/#comment-1747 Pentagon Papers (Part IV-C.4. Evolution of the War. Marine Combat Units Go to Da Nang, March 1965 | Don Kasprzak Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:13:22 +0000 http://donkasprzak.com/2007/07/01/my-latest-read-the-best-and-the-brightest/#comment-1747 [...] evaluate these hard lessons from David Halberstam’s The Best and The Brightest published in 1972 (my review here)  Kennedy seemed to have the top researchers and policy advisors like McGeorge Bundy, Robert [...] [...] evaluate these hard lessons from David Halberstam’s The Best and The Brightest published in 1972 (my review here)  Kennedy seemed to have the top researchers and policy advisors like McGeorge Bundy, Robert [...]

]]> By: Skip http://donkasprzak.com/2007/07/01/my-latest-read-the-best-and-the-brightest/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Skip Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:12:47 +0000 http://donkasprzak.com/2007/07/01/my-latest-read-the-best-and-the-brightest/#comment-764 I was in Vietnam and during the reading of that book I realized I had been sacrificed merely because we couldn't accept the idea that we could be beaten, by those little brown people, as Johnson said. It infuriates me to know how many people died because, both us and the Vietnamese, because we are so weak minded as to think what we think about ourselves is actually true. We are the strongest, the most powerful country in the world, so we say, yet we were beaten then and we are being beaten now. You are right. What we are doing in Iraq is a carbon copy of what we did in Vietnam. We just can't get it that big guns are just that, big guns. Bully's never prevail. We are not the policemen of the world, we are the bullies of the world. Skip. I was in Vietnam and during the reading of that book I realized I had been sacrificed merely because we couldn’t accept the idea that we could be beaten, by those little brown people, as Johnson said.
It infuriates me to know how many people died because, both us and the Vietnamese, because we are so weak minded as to think what we think about ourselves is actually true.
We are the strongest, the most powerful country in the world, so we say, yet we were beaten then and we are being beaten now. You are right.
What we are doing in Iraq is a carbon copy of what we did in Vietnam. We just can’t get it that big guns are just that, big guns. Bully’s never prevail. We are not the policemen of the world, we are the bullies of the world.

Skip.

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