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Yes far from perfect, i have honored that commitment. more importantly, i made a commitment to the brave men and women who served this nation. that i was not going to ask them to continue to risk their lives, in a military action that should've ended long ago. our leaders did that in vietnam, when i got here is a young man. i will not do it in afghanistan. >> if you're not old enough to remember watching our final exit from vietnam on tv, then what you are watching in afghanistan tonight is new to you. two people, who i really would love to talk to about afghanistan tonight are no longer with ...

Vietnam, he won the pulitzer prize, for his book, a bright shining lie. about america's unwinnable war in vietnam. these two men did these crucial reporting on the ground in vietnam, that began to tell americans what's really happening in van numb. and their writing is full of repertory will skill, but also the insight of an experience that has fermented into a wisdom. david died in 2007. neil died in january of this year. if they could join us tonight, we would be so much the wiser, about what we are seeing, again. in afghanistan now. and how it mirrors the on winding of what neil called, the...

1964, in 1972, when the vietnam war seem to be our first endless war, and was still going, on david wrote the best-selling book, the best in the brightest, the first book i ever read about vietnam. david told the story, about how the best and the brightest minds in american foreign policy, and military strategy, made the worst mistakes in american history. a military strategy and diplomacy. leading to the point list ethics, of 58,000 americans, along with literally millions of vietnamese, and cambodian casualties. -- as his name appears on his 1958 harvard diploma. enlisted in the army after c...