Ellsberg: From Vietnam to Afghanistan The Real News Network go to original October 25, 2009
Ellsberg: As President Obama decides what to do in Afghanistan he must learn the lessons of Vietnam
Bio: Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.