I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
I'm glad I never went to war.
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.