Disaster Quote by George McGovern

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

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

— Stephen Ambrose

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using…

— Henry Kissinger

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

I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think…

— Alexander Haig

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of…

— Walter Cronkite

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

Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about things more…

— Michael Yates

Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a…

— Michael W. Michalak

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