A rather startling story pertaining to one Daniel Ellsberg cannot but demonstrate just how stark, startling, and demonstrable are the objective differences betweeen what went on from Johnson's virtual and false Gulf of Tonkin incident through Watergate/CIA scandals and what we face today.
The publishing of the Pentagon papers which the Nixon admin. tried via prior restraint and censorship to quash, forms a perfect gestalt of wronged individuals (Ellsberg's home and office among others, had been invaded by the government to protect secrets which if known would help show how wrong both the war in vietnam was, and how pathetically it was being conducted, AND show how the military and inside the government was plenty of opposition to both.), wrong policy, and broken morality
Mr. Ellsberg is now , well:
When Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst, leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, it created one of the most significant newspaper stories -- and battles -- of the century. One thing it did not do was prevent the Vietnam War, although it may have shortened it. Now he is calling on officials within the government to leak "the Pentagon Paper of the Middle East" to modern reporters, to short-circuit another possible war.
Ellsberg's challenge is found in the October issue of Harper's magazine, to appear next week. E&P has obtained an advance copy.
Oh Danny boy .... this ain't then, and the VC who we can objectively say turned out to be quite barbaric, are no Zawalhiris, and no Hojatieh.
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