Those were the dying words uttered by Colonel Walter Kurtz, the half-crazed Special Forces officer portrayed by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, the classic war film about Vietnam. It could have been a precursor to Afghanistan or Pakistan. From my encounters in all three countries going back more than 50 years the future is not [...]
The Horror… The Horror of it All…
June 12th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: afghanistan · barack obama · Karl Eikenberry · Marlon Brando · pakistan · Stanley McChrystal · Taliban · vietnam
