I just got down watching the PBS show on the ’60s, and it included Uncle Walter Cronkite interviewing soldiers during his famous 1968 trip to Vietnam. One junior officer responds candidly on national TV that his area is much less secure than it was before Tet.
If that happened today, Rumsfeld would be demanding that 1st Looie or Captain get hung up by their thumbs. And his go-to sycophant, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, and a number of top Army brass, would probably already be acting before Rummy spoke.
(Oh, BTW, the series was great. I'm 41, so I grew up in the ’70s, but, with three older brothers, got some late ’60s spillover.)
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