Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.
Vietnam was a noble cause imperfectly pursued
God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.
After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.
I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their students would be drafted and sent to war. I was curious because for sure we’d started treating our military kids different...
The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I still can’t find words to describe. But sooner or later you have to make ...
Saints and bodhisattvas may achieve what Christians call mystical union or Buddhists call satori--a perpetual awareness of the force at the heart of the heart of things. For these enlightened few, the world is always lit. For the rest of us, such cla...
It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.
I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.
I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
