“Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“LBJ, Nixon, Bush, Obama, Democrat, Republican . . . makes no difference to the dead and the dying.”
Camillo Mac Bica
“First they turn us into killers in order to fight their immoral and illegal wars but would rather not know the specifics of what it is that they trained and conditioned us to do. Should we stray from the mythology of nobility and honor, however, and allow them access into our world, and insight into the true nature of war, they are repulsed and outraged and think us crazy and a threat to "normal" people.”
“Kerry's vocal opposition to the Vietnam War and his insistence that Iraq was the 'wrong war at the wrong time' made it hard for 'ordinary Americans' (Kerry's words) to believe that his leadership would lead to better results in Iraq and elsewhere.”
Sean Cunningham
“A lot of that money is now being spent in Indonesia, Vietnam Cambodia, countries in central and eastern Europe, Turkey, Nigeria and Central Asia.”
Dr. David Nabarro
“A lot of that money is now being spent in countries, in Indonesia, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in countries in central and eastern Europe such as Turkey, Nigeria, and also Central Asia.”
David Nabarro
“We have to realize that Iraq is already a Vietnam. But if there's going to continue to be turmoil among the Iraqi citizens themselves that puts us in the middle that's a problem because the good guys are the ones getting hurt.”
Charles Brown
