Belief And Seeing Are Both Often Wrong.

...but Highly Placed Sources Within The Kennedy Administration Disagreed: "[t]he Assumption That The Strategic Nuclear Balance Mattered In Any Way Was Wrong... As Far As I Am Concerned, It Made No Difference... If My Memory Serves Me Correctly, We Had Some Five Thousand Strategic Nuclear Warheads As Against T Heir Three Hundred. Can Anyone Seriously Tell Me That Their Having Three Hundred And Forty Would Have Made Any Difference? The Military Balance Wasn't Changed. I Didn't Believe It Then, And I Don't Believe It Now..."

Neither Conscience Nor Sanity Itself Suggests That The United States Is, Should Or Could Be The Global Gendarme.

That's One Of The Major Lessons: No President Should Ever Take This Nation To War Without Full Public Debate In The Congress And/or In The Public.

We Do Not Have The God-given Right To Shape Every Nation In Our Image Or As We Choose.

The Greatest Contribution Vietnam Is Making-right Or Wrong Is Beside The Point-is That It Is Developing An Ability In The United States To Fight A Limited War, To Go To War Without The Necessity Of Arousing The Public Ire.