Against Quote by Nguyen Cao Ky

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

The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United States organized…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

— Richard N. Haass

Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal…

— Noam Chomsky

Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was the war…

— Noam Chomsky

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Myra MacPherson

The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of working through…

— Noam Chomsky

Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or an "unwise…

— Noam Chomsky

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the…

— Nguyen Cao Ky