Arrogance Quote by Jonathan Yardley

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless waste. So…

— Mark Bowden

“I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the…

— Jack Finney

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The approach this nation has taken to waging war since Vietnam (absolving the people from meaningful involvement), along with the way it organizes its…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

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

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's…

— Jane Fonda

“The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.”

— Mark Bowden

“This is not to say, as some have, that American decisions between 1954 and 1956 (and later in the Eisenhower years) made the American-Vietnamese…

— James T. Patterson

“The events we have passed through form a coherent pattern and the political actors who have shaped the world are rational--if not necessarily moral…

— George Friedman

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

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War…

— Steven Weber

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear…

— Hunter S. Thompson