Communism Quote by Tom Wolfe

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster

It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United…

— McGeorge Bundy

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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

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

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

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's…

— Donald Sutherland

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very…

— Robert McFarlane

Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very…

— Noam Chomsky