t r u t h o u t - Bob Herbert | No End in Sight in Iraq

t r u t h o u t - Bob Herbert | No End in Sight in Iraq:

" Writing about Vietnam in the foreword to David Halberstam's book 'The Best and the Brightest,' Senator John McCain said:

'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.'"