June 19, 2007 11:49AM 

# Now Where Have I Seen \*That\* Before? 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) 

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Kurt Campbell and Shawn Brimley have a [“Memorandum” piece](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3866) in the new issue of *Foreign Policy* magazine outlining a 1967 memo from the US intelligence community about the “Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam” and the lessons it can draw for the current conflict in Iraq.

Of course, a discussion of this very same topic appeared several months ago, without glossy pages and fancy fonts, [in the pages of the *Newark Star-Ledger*.](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7973)

Washington is a cruel place.

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