Roger Hilsman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .
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My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that.
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Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.
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I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.
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I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.
-- Roger Hilsman
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I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
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During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
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Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
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I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
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