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I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show…

— Stephen King

“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

— Richard N. Haass

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

— Richard Holbrooke

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism…

— Jacob Weisberg

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight…

— Robert McNamara

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

— Myra MacPherson

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing…

— Martin Jacques

“The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure…

— Mark Bowden