"We wanted to see this country win the……" — Neil Sheehan
"We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see."
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15 Quotes by Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan has 15 quotes on this site.
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These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
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You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well…
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The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before,…
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We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
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Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause…
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Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's…
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I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it…
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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began…
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At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened…
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I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get…
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would…
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I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the…
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