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Vietnam War

Tuesday 23rd of April 2024

Activism Thirty years ago, anti-Vietnam War protesters presented themselves to those in Washington as authentic individuals bent on challenging a state gone off the rails. Today, their place has been taken by Donald Trump. Fred Turner, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War Fuck that we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam; Nixon and Kissinger got away with it. citation Joe Biden, responding to a question about America's moral obligation to evacuate interpreters and other Afghans who trusted and worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, thereby delaying the government's planning for an evacuation for months © 2022 Kwiple.com
Assholes say I had other priorities in the 60s than military service. Dick Cheney © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bad news We had total freedom in Vietnam. That, of course, made the Americans feel when the war finally came to an end that it was the media that let them down. They felt upset about that because they'd given us every facility and all they got in exchange was that public opinion turned against the war in Vietnam. So, if you go to Afghanistan now, you're totally controlled and never going to be allowed to take the kind of photographs I did in Vietnam of the real thing, the battle, the price of war, the suffering and the loss. So, the whole rule book has been rewritten and it doesn't come out in our favor. citation Don McCullin © 2015 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus More people died in the US in three months than during the entire Vietnam War (there were 58,318 US soldiers killed in action in Vietnam between 1955 and 1975; deaths from COVID-19 exceeded that figure on 28 April 2020). Richard Horton, The COVID-19 Catastrophe  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say People like you caused us to lose that war. Ann Coulter, to a disabled Vietnam vet © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gulf War The ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian Desert. George H. W. Bush, March 1, 1991, after victory during the First Gulf War © 2021 Kwiple.com
Gulf War Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam slogan of opponents to the war © 2017 Kwiple.com
Iraq Packers say George Bush is not fighting this like Vietnam. … This is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. William (“Bill”) Kristol © 2015 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Be advised. I am where I am and you are where you are. Where I am, I see goddamned trucks. A Marine lieutenant near the Laotian border, responding to his batallion commander, who, although more than 20 kilometers away, had radioed back to the lieutenant that it was impossible for enemy trucks to be anywhere near the position from which the lieutenant had reported sighting them Quoted by Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal, June 3-4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say By God, we have kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all. George W. Bush, March, 1991, at the end of the Persian Gulf War © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When McNamara wants to know what Ho Chi Minh is thinking, he interviews himself. Robert McNamara portrayed by James Willbanks, Army strategist during the Vietnam War © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say This is a great, great teachable moment here, this whole thing with Trump and McCain. [Americans] have not seen an embattled public figure stand up for himself, double down and tell everybody to go to hell. Rush Limbaugh, defending Trump for saying John McCain, who spent years as a POW rather than receive early release not offered to enlisted men, was not a war hero © 2020 Kwiple.com
Veterans say I am twenty-one and the whole thing is shot, done forever. There is no real healing left anymore, everything that is going to heal already has healed and now I am left with the corpse, the living dead man, the man with the numb legs, the man in the wheelchair, the Easter Seal boy, the cripple, the sexlessman, the sexlessman, the man with the numb dick, the man who can't make children, the man who can't stand, the man who can't walk, the angry lonely man, the bitter man with the nightmares, the murder man, the man who cries in the shower. Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. Gen. Võ Nguyên Giáp commander of People's Army of Vietnam © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? John Kerry, 1971 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War In recent years, the prudence we learned from our involvement in Indochina has been widely derided as “Vietnam syndrome.” If by Vietnam syndrome we mean the belief that the U.S. should never again engage in (a) military interventions in foreign civil wars without clear objectives and a clear exit strategy, (b) “nation building” in countries about whose history and culture we are ignorant, and (c) sacri- ficing our children when our lives, our way of life, or “government of, by, and for the people” are not directly threatened, then we should never get over Vietnam syndrome. It's not an illness, it's a vaccination. Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal, June 3-4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War It became necessary to destroy the town to save it. Unidentified US Army major quoted in Ben Tre, Vietnam, February 8, 1968 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War My country, right or wrong slogan of the war's supporters © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War No more Vietnams! enduring antiwar slogan © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve. John McCain © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War Vietnam was a place where the elite went as reporters, not as soldiers. Almost as many people from Harvard won Pulitzer Prizes in Vietnam as died there. David Halberstam © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War We joked and ridiculed these medals and ribbons. We called them “gedunk medals,” and in the photographs I retain … only the career types were wearing the ribbons on their daily uniforms. A Vietnam-era Naval officer quoted in Joel Best's Everyone's a Winner — “Gedunk” is naval slang for a ship's store that sells cigarettes, candy, toiletries, etc. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War When I was going to high school, when I was going to college Vietnam was like the big deal. Like you have to leave college and go fight. And I said, “excuse me?” Donald trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War Without a front, flanks, or rear, we fought a formless war against a formless enemy, who evaporated like the morning mists, only to materialize in some unexpected place. It was a haphazard, episodic sort of combat. Most of the time nothing happened. But when something did, it happened instantaneously and without warning. Philip Caputo © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Vietnam War You know, if you're young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam – it's called the dating game. Dating is like being in Vietnam. You're the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. Donald Trump, on avoiding VD in the era of AIDS © 2019 Kwiple.com