Chicago Quote by Noam Chomsky

Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and…

— Noam Chomsky

Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

— Dean Acheson

Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

— Nat Hentoff

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

In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end,…

— Raul Grijalva

So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could have won.But…

— Noam Chomsky

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

— Paul Begala

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth…

— Trin Yarborough

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight…

— Robert McNamara