https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/hastings-max/47532/ https://wist.info/hastings-max/47532/#respond Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:19:18 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=47532 Most air crew take for granted the spurious moral absolution conferred upon those who escape eye contact with the people whom they kill.

Max Hastings (b. 1945) British journalist and military historian
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (2018) ]]> https://wist.info/hastings-max/47532/feed/ 0 47532 https://wist.info/kennedy-robert/27216/ https://wist.info/kennedy-robert/27216/#respond Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:26:38 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27216 Are we like the God of the Old Testament that we can decide, in Washington, D.C., what cities, what towns, what hamlets in Vietnam are going to be destroyed? … Do we have to accept that? … I do not think we have to. I think we can do something about it.

Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) American politician
Speech, US Senate (Mar 1968)

Frequently cited as his last Senate speech about the Vietnam War. ]]> https://wist.info/kennedy-robert/27216/feed/ 0 27216