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“Men cannot be our enemies--even men called "Vietcong"! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?”

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Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

“The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.”

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Book:Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

Source: Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

“I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.”

Author:Tom Hayden

“Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.”

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Author:Stephen Ambrose

“When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!”

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Author:Calvin Trillin