America Quote by Myra MacPherson

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

— Richard N. Haass

“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

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends…

— Phillip Noyce

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

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of people were ambivalent about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 positioned himself as the peace candidate. Once Johnson sent large amounts of…

— H. W. Brands

“There was no such thing as the Vietnam War. This rather surprising statement is in fact 100% true - on a technicality. As the…

— Jack Goldstein

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

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

“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

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

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement…

— Noam Chomsky