In 1970 my father @DanielEllsberg met with Henry Kissinger and urged him to read the McNamara study, later known as the #PentagonPapers. “But do we really have anything to learn from this study?" #Kissinger asked. "After all, we make decisions very differently now.”

My father said: "#Cambodia didn’t look all that different.” Kissinger replied: "Cambodia was undertaken for very complicated reasons.” My father: "Henry, there hasn't been a rotten decision in this area for 20 years which wasn't undertaken for very complicated reasons."