End of summer Quote by William Westmoreland

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

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

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

— William Colby

The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves…

— Bui Diem

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

For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of…

— Vernon A. Walters

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

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

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

— Bo Gritz

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a…

— Sylvester Stallone

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