World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us… — 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 time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. — Neil Sheehan Copy Share
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
