Complexity Quote by William Westmoreland

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

— R. Lee Ermey

There are no techniques in politics.

— Michael Ignatieff

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to…

— Stephen Ambrose

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

— Ian Mcewan

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

— William Westmoreland

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

There are no personal sympathies in politics.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Nguyen Cao Ky