There may be more to say in the coming days about the U.S. military’s secret advertorial campaign in Iraq, a story that was broken yesterday by the Los Angeles Times.
For now, though, kudos to NPR’s new Pentagon correspondent, John Hendren, who scored an interview with David Halberstam, the author of a classic history of American involvement in Vietnam, “The Best and the Brightest.”
Halberstam: “The only people they fool are themselves. And then they begin to believe it, and then they begin to believe in the Potemkin village. And so it’s stupid. It doesn’t work, and it’s dangerous in the sense that it corrupts those who are trying to corrupt others.”
You can listen to Hendren’s piece here.
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The Emerson Avenger
Sounds a lot like some of the Unitarian Universalists I know. . .”The only people they fool are themselves. And then they begin to believe it, and then they begin to believe in the UU Potemkin Village. And so it’s stupid. It doesn’t work, and it’s dangerous in the sense that it corrupts those who are trying to corrupt others.”
Anonymous
Dan, not only is it indefensible. And stupid. And pathetic. It is also probably illegal, you know? As crazy as we have become, Congress, at some point, in saner times, has probably stipulated that federal funds cannot be spent this way.