“Vietnam,” said Robert Kennedy, “Vietnam . . . We have thirty Vietnams a day here.” Thirty Vietnams. From the beginning it had been that way, a tiny issue overclouded by the great issues. It had risen to pre-eminence partly because of neglect and omission, a policy which had evolved not because a group of Westerners had sat down years before and determined what the future should be, but precisely because they had not.
