And that's the way it is

What Walter Cronkite recalls as one of his proudest moments is actually one of the worst moments of modern journalistic history:

Cronkite said one of his proudest moments came at the end of a 1968 documentary he made following a visit to Vietnam during the Tet offensive. Urged by his boss to briefly set aside his objectivity to give his view of the situation, Cronkite said the war was unwinnable and that the U.S. should exit.

Then-President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told a White House aide after that, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."

But any objective look at what was going on during the Tet offsensive shows that we were winning it. That could have been a turning point toward victory rather than the ignominous retreat we actually had. The "most trusted man in America" was stupidly wrong and abused his poisition. And now he thinks it's time for us to just pull out of Iraq.