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"By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies."
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."
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"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition."
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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."

"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."

"The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble."

"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes."

"Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena."

"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."

"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."

"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."

"And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all."
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