Vietnam Quotes by Olivia Somersille https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr an overview of the opinions on war en-us 2018-12-05 16:35:58 UTC 2018-12-10 16:38:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png "Declare the United States the winner and begin deescalation." - Senator George Aiken (R-VT) 200801255 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311456771 Americans are showing confidence in themselves and the war by already assuming they're going to win. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311456771 "I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam doesn't have a breaking point."-Henry Kissinger 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311457339 Kissinger is confident that Vietnam will eventually break as they were thought to be small and weak compared to the U.S. If we kept up the offense, the numbers would be too high not to surrender.]]> 2018-12-05 16:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311457339 "Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place." -- President John Kennedy in a June 1961 interview 200801255 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311460885 President John Kennedy explains how Vietnam is a good place to prove the power Americans have over them. By going into war with confidence, they can prove to the Vietnamese that they're stronger. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311460885 "The commitment of five hundred thousand Americans has settled the issue of the importance of Vietnam. For what is involved now is confidence in American promises."-Henry Kissinger 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311461727 Because so many American men have joined the war, it became obvious how important and vital the battles were.]]> 2018-12-05 16:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311461727 "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 200801255 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311462365 Ho Chi Minh stated this warning to the French Colonists, ultimately showing he wasn't afraid of the Americans' attack. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311462365 "For is seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stale mate.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 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311463265 Cronkite stated that we were getting nowhere in the war and it's just a bloody, never-ending game of back and forth.]]> 2018-12-05 16:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311463265 "Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?" -- a protest chant 200801255 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311463630 Americans began protesting war and saying things like the quote above to make the soldiers feel ashamed]]> 2018-12-05 16:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311463630 "The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time." -- President Richard Nixon 200801255 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311464607 President Nixon planned on going all out for the Vietnam war, basically saying that no one has ever made more damage than what they're about to do. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311464607 "If the Buddhists wish to have another barbecue, I'll gladly supply the gasoline and a match" -Tran Le Xuan 200801479 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311464818 Basically, what Tran Le Xuan is saying is that he's not afraid to start up a fire (aka a fight). ]]> 2018-12-05 16:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311464818 "I think we have all underestimated the seriousness of this situation. Like giving cobalt treatment to a terminal cancer case. I think a long protracted war will disclose our weakness, not our strength."-George W. Ball 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311465972 Ball explained how the U.S showed our weakness by running in to this war with Vietnam in a flash and expecting a walk in the park. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311465972 "we are fighting a war with no front lines, since the enemy hides among the people in the jungles and mountains, and uses covertly border areas of neutral countries. Once cannot measure[our] progress by lines on a map."-General William C. Westmoreland 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311467531 Gen. Westmoreland is telling the people what they VC war tactics were. We also would never know how far or good we are doing as we can never see any progress on a map.]]> 2018-12-05 17:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311467531 "I believe this 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 such a historic mistake."-Wayne Morse 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311470005 Morse states what an idiotic decision to join the war was. He doesn't think future U.S Govs will be proud or have any good thoughts when brought back to this event.]]> 2018-12-05 17:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311470005 "All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." -The first lines of the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence 200801479 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311897933 The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence is the same as the American one. Both nations hold the same values yet they are fighting each other. ]]> 2018-12-06 16:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311897933 "Let us understand : North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that."-Richard Nixon 200801933 https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311900096 Pres. Nixon says only the decisions we make can bring our loss or humiliation, not Vietnam.]]> 2018-12-06 16:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/200801255/yeq5yxf2nbqr/wish/311900096