“…Before we can really get a lift of a driving dream, we have to get rid of some of the nightmares we inherited. One of these nightmares is a war without end. We are ending that war. … But it takes some time to get rid of the nightmares. You can’t be having a driving dream when you are in the midst of a nightmare.”
Certainly could be a revealing acknowledgement by President Barack Obama on the agonizing process of winding down the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan–as opposed to summarily ending it.
It’s actually a soberingly frank response by President Richard Nixon to a Vietnam War query by PBS correspondent Nancy Dickerson in 1970. And it sounds, alas, hauntingly contemporary.