If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
The Vietnam War soured President Johnson's legacy. We still have to recognize his domestic legacy.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
From my quarter-a-century experience as a fighter for democracy, there is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle in every generation, and you have to take up the course of time and time again.
We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.