CBS’s chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer may not be as renowned as his late
colleague Walter Cronkite, whose opposition to the Vietnam war was considered a major turning point in that conflict. But the Face the Nation host (pictured in photo by Jeanne Prejean) seemed to be following in his old friend’s footsteps in Dallas today, when Schieffer declared that it’s time to “rethink” the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
“I wonder if this is working, if it isn’t time to step back and re-evaluate the whole thing,” Schieffer said of the war in a luncheon conversation with NBC’s Tom Brokaw before 1,000 people at the Hilton Anatole. “It’s very difficult to help people who don’t want to be helped. Is it changing things? … It would be very dangerous if we got involved and then turned around and left. But I think we need to give some very hard thought” to the current strategy.
