Uncomfortable Echoes

For those old enough to remember Vietnam, it feels something like Pentagon Papers light. The words endless and unwinnable bubble up again, and even though the current release doesn't reflect 2010 or top level thinking, it seemed nobody making decisions remembered that "Never get involved in a land war in Asia, " is not only among the "classic blunders" mentioned by Vizzini in The Princess Bride, it was also reputedly advice given by General Douglas MacArthur to President John F. Kennedy, in 1961.




Video: MSNBC

WikiLeaks semi-public spokesperson faces the press in London

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, says there may be evidence of war crimes in the 90,000, mostly classified U.S. military documents about the war in Afghanistan that the site posted over the weekend.

Clint Hendler, of the Columbia Journalism Review authored a closer look at Assange previously and offers thoughts on the who and how of WikiLeaks latest document dump.

Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 7/26/10, Host: Robin Young.