Able Quote by Jonathan Schell

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the…

— Noam Chomsky

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very…

— Robert McFarlane

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often…

— Malcolm Forbes

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What…

— Richard Armitage

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

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

— Alexander Haig

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability…

— Melvin Laird

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

— Jill Stein

“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

“The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My story was…

— Joseph M. Puglia

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