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I cannot read Robert McNamarra's mind, of course. Even less can I look back in time and tell what he was thinking in 1965 (and being a pyschologist, I think his ability to look back and truely remember what he was thinking then is more limited than he might admit). But if it is true that he did not believe we could win the war in Vietnam as early as 1964 or '65, then he was extraordinarily pesimistic, and dead wrong.

There is such a thing as a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you believe you are going to lose, you hold back your reserves, to cut your loses, and guess what, you lose.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the US did not lose the Vietnam War. We quit. That's worse.

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