We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
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