Bombs Quote by Vernon A. Walters

“Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast nets from…

— Susan O'Neill

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

— William Westmoreland

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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is…

— Noam Chomsky

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to…

— Gerald R. Ford

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

— William Colby

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

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood…

— Robert Dallek

“China is traditionally Vietnam’s enemy. [Vietnam] had been kicking [invaders] out for millennia. And we were just the latest.”

— Mark Bowden

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

— Pearl S. Buck