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America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

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.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.