Afghanistan: What would Walter Cronkite say?

 

Norman Solomon makes a pretty good guess.

Writing on the McChrystal event, Solomon makes the following observation:

Walter Cronkite used the word “stalemate” in his famous February 1968 declaration to CBS viewers that the Vietnam War couldn’t be won. “We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders both in Vietnam and Washington to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds,” he said. And: “It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.”
Yet the U.S. war on Vietnam continued for another five years, inflicting more unspeakable horrors on a vast scale.

Click the link above to find out what else Solomon has to say at Znet.