No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
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