Op-Ed Columnist - The Brightest Are Not Always the Best - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Brightest Are Not Always the Best - NYTimes.com: "Halberstam loved that story because it underlined the weakness of the Kennedy team: “the difference between intelligence and wisdom, between the abstract quickness and verbal facility which the team exuded, and true wisdom, which is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.” That difference was clearly delineated in Vietnam, where American soldiers, officials and reporters could see that the war was going badly even as McNamara brusquely wielded charts and crunched numbers to enforce his conviction that victory was assured."