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30 Nov 2008 09:21 pm
"The Doves Were Right"
Not all statesmen refuse to learn. Holbrooke:
"[In 1995, McGeorge] Bundy began writing tortured notes
to himself, often in the margins of his old memos — a sort of private dialogue
with the man he had been 30 years earlier — something out of a Pirandello play.
Bundy would scribble notes: “the doves were right”; “a war we should not have
fought”; “I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception,
recommendation and execution.” “What are my worst mistakes?” For those of us
who had known the self-confident, arrogant Brahmin from Harvard, these
astonishing, even touching, efforts to understand his own mistakes are far more
persuasive than the shallow analysis McNamara offers in his own memoir, “In
Retrospect”…
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