Spamming with a Relevant Quote

[dlgood]

"it was wishful thinking, overselling, the neutralizing of dissent within government and the idea that war was a test of national will..."

"To put it bluntly, at the heart of the calamity is a group of able, dedicated men who have been regularly and repeatedly wrong - and whose standing with their contemporaries, and more important, with history depends, as they see it, on being proven right. These are not men who can be asked to extricate themselves from error."

Points to those who can identify the speaker and the subject.