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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistWorld , War , Success , Leadership
I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistNever , War , Years , Generation
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistGood , Thought , Whatever , Succeed
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistTruth , War , Win , Country
The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistMyself , Wrong , Understand , Bring
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistYou , People , Good , Pain
You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistLife , Love , Time , Children
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistTwo , War , Other , Communist
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistNever , Man , Men , Fighting
At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.
Author: Neil Sheehan - American JournalistMyself , Book , Best , Peace
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