Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. Jeane Kirkpatrick
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society…shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. William Westmoreland
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. William Westmoreland
It’s not that we lost the war militarily. The fact is we as a nation did not make good our commitment to the South Vietnamese. William Westmoreland
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. Myra MacPherson
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard M Nixon
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Marshall McLuhan