BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 00:40:00
We helped him get the bombing started and carried it on. i'd been part of that. i look back on that with amazement, almost. then i was in vietnam, but then i read the pentagon papers. i knew coming back from vietnam, as everyone knew coming back who'd been involved in combat extent because we were not going to win. we were not going to get these guys to quit. they were not going to quit. some of your critics, i'm going to quote one of them. he's an academic called gabriel schoenfeld. he has written about your decision. and he said, "there is a fundamental arrogance about what daniel ellsberg d...