My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
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.
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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.
Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.