#vietnam

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. ↗

— George McGovern

#anything #disaster #good #hard #i

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. ↗

— George McGovern

#against #constantly #guy #i #no regrets

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

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

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #believe #blood #firmly #i

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#american women #committed #could #died #end

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#christmas #could #country #home #how