NP Pentagon Papers

[Otto]

Interesting discussion in the NYT

Lying About Vietnam
by Daniel Ellsberg, who made the Pentagon Papers public,
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/opinion/29ELLS.html?todaysheadlines

versus

Misreading the Pentagon Papers

By Leslie H. Gelb, who served as the director of the Pentagon Papers project
from 1967 to 1969:
"But I tell you, I'm cursed with a good memory, and I wish I didn't have it,
because I remember that I and almost everybody I knew deeply believed in
that war. We supported it primarily because of beliefs about what the world
was like at that time."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/opinion/29GELB.html?todaysheadlines

I bet the war was opposed by many Americans for exactly the same reasons.

Otto