These Minds, They Are a Changin'

And ashamed of my credulity in believing the false reasons given for undertaking it.

I'm ashamed of the suffering our mistakes have cost, and of the way in which we have so cavalierly alienated our friends and allies in the world.

I'm ashamed of having accepted, so willingly, the illusions about how this operation would end, when it is now clear the architects of it themselves had no understanding of the difficulty and no sensible plan.

All this is hindsight now. There's no remedy for the regret. Except as a guide for the future, regret is useless. There's but one constructive thing left to do, and I will do it again when the opportunity presents itself.