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