Airplane Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may…

— Shelby Steele

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

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

— John F. Kerry

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

— Myra MacPherson

“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

Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated;…

— Karl Marlantes

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of…

— Michael W. Michalak

“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

We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take…

— Bui Diem

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

— Nguyen Cao Ky