Quote of the Day: Flashback Edition

"Mr Secretary, why have we turned this into, what is becoming more and more every day, an American war, and in your opinion, is this essential to the security of the United States?... At what point does this become our war and not their war?... I would hope very much that we are going to stop escalating this war any further. I think it was about a year ago that you told me we had lots of wiggle room. I think we're running out of wiggle room."
-Sen. Joseph Clark to Secretary of State Dean Rusk (Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony, 1966)

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