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“The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.”

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Author:Richard Holbrooke

“It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.”

Source: The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay

“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

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Author:Miguel Syjuco

“It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .”

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Author:Roger Hilsman