For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: August 2, 1949 |
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

