Those of us old enough to remember this:
(from Wikipedia) (Northeastern "Liberal" Republican Senator George) Aiken took an ambivalent position on the Vietnam war (1965-75), changing along with the Vermont mood. Neither a hawk nor a dove, he was sometimes called an "owl."[15] He reluctantly supported the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, and was more enthusiastic in support of Nixon's program of letting South Vietnam do the fighting using American money.[16] Aiken is widely quoted as saying that the U.S. should declare victory and bring the troops home.[17] His actual statement was:
"The United States could well declare unilaterally ... that we have 'won' in the sense that our armed forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam," and that such a declaration "would herald the resumption of political warfare as the dominant theme in Vietnam."
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So this is what has effectively been done with the missing plane. It is lost...everyone is dead...now go home.
Interesting...it basically worked. I do believe that my life is a weird combination of Catch-22, The Illusionist, Three Days of the Condor, Dante's Inferno (the book), Amelie, The Little Fugitive, Portnoy's Complaint, and You Can't Go Home Again.
Musings on a rainy Saturday Afternoon...
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