Around the world Quote by Bui Diem

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood…

— Robert Dallek

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the…

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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 South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves…

— Bui Diem

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do…

— Tom Wolfe

Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being…

— Jim Starlin

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is…

— Noam Chomsky

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

— Bui Diem

Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

— Dean Acheson

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

My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was…

— Francis Ford Coppola