Ambition Quote by Donald Sutherland

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

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record…

— Jonathan Schell

Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it…

— David Means

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

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

Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

— Peter P. Mahoney

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

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could…

— J William Fulbright

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

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized…

— James Fallows

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel