Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity,… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65. — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
