Did anyone watch this? I did; I'd have mentioned it hours ahead of time on my own blog if it weren't down.
Keeping partisanship out of it as best I can (you probably already know where I stand): This testimony actually made me feel more favorably about him. He spoke quite eloquently, even if the Boston Brahmin quasi-British short A's in his dialect confused me.
He had some strong, well-thought-out opinions on war. Too bad on one particular count he was (in my opinion) dead wrong. My opinion (but also why it's probably not terribly useful to debate it) is probably best summed up by a line at http://adeimantus.blogspot.com/2004/08/let-it-alone.html:
"In the decade following our ignominious withdrawal, communists would potash Cambodia's rice fields with the bones of millions of human skeletons. Of the millions desperately fleeing the daily terrors of communist rule, countless thousands would perish in the Gulf of Thailand or the South China Sea when their pathetically rickety boats capsized under the their own weight. If those millions of deaths weren't enough to convince you that fighting communism in Southeast Asia was a truly righteous cause, then mere words could never persuade you."
