Photo: George F. Kennan George F. Kennan On The Escalation In Afghanistan -- Antiwar.blog
In January and February 1966, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, J. William Fulbright, held a series of televised public hearings to discuss the deepening military involvement of the United States in Vietnam. Fulbright summoned to testify three pro-Administration witnesses (Secretary of State Dean Rusk, AID Administrator David E. Bell, and General Maxwell D. Taylor, Ret.) and two non-Administration witnesses (Lieutenant General James M. Gavin and Dr. George F. Kennan, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union). An abridged transcript was published under the title The Vietnam Hearings (Random House, 1966).
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My Comment: I make it a habit of posting something form Antiwar.blog at least once (or twice) a month .... well here it is .... and one in which I am in complete agreement with George F. Kennan.
Sadly .... it also appears that we are repeating history.