Vietnam by Theodore Yu https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0 en-us 2018-01-10 16:55:02 UTC 2018-01-28 20:38:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png "The commitment of five hundred thousand Americans has settled the issue of the importance in Vietnam. For what is involved now is confidence in American promises."-Incoming National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, 1969 201105229 https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220660456 This quote shows that the reason for the war and its importance changed.]]> 2018-01-11 16:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220660456 "I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam doesn't have a breaking point." -National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger speaking in July 1969 to NSC aides as he charged them with developing a punitive military strategy that would coerce North Vietnam into negotiating on American terms https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220660843 Henry Kissinger is saying that he doesn't believe that North Vietnam will be going through critical situations ]]> 2018-01-11 16:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220660843 "This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart."-Senator Frank Church (D-ID) speaking on the Senate floor on May 13, 1970. https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220661700 Many believe that the war had little to do with the safety Americans or American Society.]]> 2018-01-11 16:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220661700 "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."-AP correspondent Peter Arnett, 1968 201105229 https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220663522 This quote shows how soldiers would rationalize destroying places where civilians lived.]]> 2018-01-11 16:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220663522 "If the Buddhists wish to have another barbecue, I'll gladly supply the gasoline and a match." -Tran Le Xuan, better known as Madame Nhu or "the Dragon Lady," dismissing the fact that Buddhist monks had set themselves on fire in the summer of 1963 to protest the rule of her brother-in-law, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, for whom she acted as an unofficial first lady. https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220665346 Tran Le Xuan is metaphorically using the word babecue against Buddhist and is saying she would be the one to supply a "match". Therefore saying she would be happy to cause distruction to them]]> 2018-01-11 16:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220665346 "For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past."-Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News Broadcast, 1968 201105229 https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220666356 This quote is showing how the Americans' confidence in winning the war was gone and that it would be better to end it soon in a tie, or the deaths could get worse like they did in the past. ]]> 2018-01-11 16:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220666356 "The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time." -President Richard Nixon to White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob Haldeman and Attorney General John Mitchell on April 4, 1972 in deciding to launch what would become known as Operation Linebacker, a massive escalation in the war effort that included mining Haiphong harbor, blockading the North Vietnamese coast, and launching a massive new bombing campaign against North Vietnam https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220667136 Operation linebacker is when America just dropped a bunch of bombs down on Vietnamese. And president Richard said to bomb them like crazy.]]> 2018-01-11 16:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220667136 "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." -Viet Minh leader Ho Chi Minh in a warning to French colonialists in 1946 https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220670146 This quote shows that Veitnam's leader Ho Chi Minh had threatened France.]]> 2018-01-11 16:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220670146 "I believe this resolution to be a historic mistake. I believe that within the next century, future generations will look with dismay and great disappointment upon a Congress which is now about to mistake." -Senator Wayne Morse (D-OR) on the Senate's impending vote to adopt the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964. https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220670856 The war was such a mistake that the congress is disappointed about their historic mistake.]]> 2018-01-11 16:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/201105229/recd0vpf10v0/wish/220670856