“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
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President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
