In the Washington Post, Walter Pincus notes that Arthur Schlesinger’s reflections on Vietnam, published in his posthumous Journals, show unnerving parallels between Vietnam and Iraq.

How many times has President Bush used such phrases as “precipitous withdrawal” and remarked that only Americans can defeat the U.S. military effort in Iraq? Last April, for example, Bush said: “Precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is not a plan to bring peace to the region or to make our people safer at home. Instead, it would embolden our enemies and confirm their belief that America is weak.“

What a shame that the shallow, catty Maureen Dowd was the person the Times chose to have review Journals, which are full of more nuggets than Dowd could ever know.