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I read the portion that I surmised he wanted me to read (in bold), then, after the clarification, I stopped commenting on it, but you haven't.

Pretty lazy, but that's fine. You admitted you were wrong about Keyes' level of support for the war, so I'm ready to move on.

"You admitted you were wrong about Keyes' level of support for the war"

I did?

Where?

I admitted that I should have read the entire quote prior to commenting on it...that's all.

I haven't even begun going through his "Making Sense" archives for more comments like this:"

KEYES: Well, I think one part of the problem — and we've come, unfortunately, to the end of the time we have for our discussion — but I think that one part of the problem, precisely, has to do with a failure to think through in a strategic sense the implications of our stated policy goals and desires. What I used to call when I was involved in all of this stuff, policies of wishful thinking that in point of fact are not a substitute for policies that are based on a careful assessment of the realities of the situation and the kind of tough decisions we have to take in order to take advantage of those realities to produce the result we want to see.
That kind of coherence hasn't been there. And in part, I have to say, I know there are institutional stresses and strains and all this within every administration. But it is a president's job in the end to impress coherence on those kinds of stresses and strains. And it's going to have to be done if we're going to see a resolution of the confusion that I think is now being encouraged in U.S. policy." -- Source