#viet

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#iraq #national #national security #neither #nor

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#conflicts #diminished #i #iraq #iraq war

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#battlefields #brought #brutality #comfort #into

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#compared #russia #soviet #soviet union #then

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #believe #blood #firmly #i

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#national #often #over #philadelphia #race

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compilation #coverage #creativity #critical #during

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bloc #co-workers #countries #deny #everywhere

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#american public #anything #because #before #believe

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous. ↗

— Edward Teller

#contributed #defeat #enormous #i #i tried