Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!kevin From: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Making Friends for the Soviets Message-ID: <142@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:21:46 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.142 Posted: Mon Dec 3 12:21:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:48:31 EST References: <298@bonnie.UUCP> <> Reply-To: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 16 Summary: [] >> I sometimes wonder if the State Department and >> the administration ever conduct post mortems to determine why US policy >> failed in a particular country or do they just stumble blindly onward >> without ever looking back? >> J. M. McGhee > >They just stumble blindly onward without ever looking back. > (Alex C. Tselis) Not quite. The Pentagon Papers are an example of internal historical research, which--once leaked, at least--yielded a lot of insight into the "process" of Vietnam. Kevin Eric Saunders kevin.lasspvax@cornell.arpa