Nobody Does it Better

Came a feature story in the Washington Post on Sunday: one of those rare times when Bob Woodward does actual reporting instead of getting in everyone's back pocket to get fodder for whatever book he's writing. Thank goodness the Bush administration is no longer around, too, otherwise he would be sidetracked writing a fifth Bush expose !

Woodward and Gordon M. Goldstein have combined some interviews they did a long time ago with Robert S. McNamara, and MacGeorge Bundy, each prior to the mens' deaths. It's a detailed explanation of the internal debates over Vietnam, and it's definitely done with the present situation in Afghanistan in mind.

"The Anguish of Decision" (note that the print version of this story had a great photo of President Johnson & McNamara seated next to each other, both with expressions of total exhaustion and mental conflict on their faces.