Guess who wrote the foreward to David Halberstam's seminal and definitive study of the Vietnam War, The Best and the Brightest? This exhaustive book explores the tragic and disastrous policies formulated by the "best and the brightest'' that is the social and academic elites of the country that led to and guided the US involvement and conflict in Vietnam where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died as a direct result. John McCain wrote the foreward:
It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn’t support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay. No other national endeavor requires as much unshakable resolve as war. If the nation and the government lack that resolve, it is criminal to expect men in the field to carry it alone.
Yea, but innit weird how similar Obama's name is to Osama?