American Quote by Noam Chomsky

A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.

— Ben Rhodes

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

— Ben Rhodes

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing…

— Martin Jacques

“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

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

— Noam Chomsky

“The CIA found in Laos a country where it already had amassed influence, in the heart of a Cold War battlefield, and which had…

— Joshua Kurlantzick

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French,…

— Noam Chomsky

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of…

— Jeff Greenfield

“how the Khmer Rouge had multiplied and risen to power. It was due to four years of bombing, ordered by Washington, D.C. to destroy…

— Jennifer H. Lau

“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