From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the…

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in…

— Wilfred Burchett

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the…

— Wilfred Burchett

At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue…

— Juan Manuel Santos

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

— William Westmoreland

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we…

— Noam Chomsky

American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy,…

— Noam Chomsky

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't…

— Christopher Hitchens

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in…

— George McGovern

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the absence of centralized decision-making, Hebrard's town plans for Indochina had no equivalent in France itself. This is because territorial development can only…

— Helen Grant Ross

Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the…

— Noam Chomsky

“The truth was that history—and in Indochina we were on the wrong side of it—was a hard taskmaster and from the early to the…

— David Halberstam

Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.

— Doug Rice

“The United States bombed Indochina with three times the tonnage of bombs used in all of World War II; Cambodia alone was hit with…

— Vaddey Ratner

“The hypothesis advanced by the propaganda model, excluded from debate as unthinkable, is that in dealing with the American wars in Indochina, the media…

— Noam Chomsky