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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

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

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

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

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It's time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival.