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“I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”

Quote by Neil Sheehan

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Neil Sheehan is an American journalist born on October 27, 1936. He is renowned for his coverage of the Vietnam War, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. more

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