Difficult War Quotes by William Westmoreland

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• Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with…
• I don't take criticism lying down.
• I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
• I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming…
• In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
• Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
• The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
• This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and…
• I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You…
• By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the…
• I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate…
• It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

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