From Vietnam to Iraq: America's Legacy of Atrocity
“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.”
"...the health of our system would have been demonstrated by a change of policy caused by a recognition that what we [did] in Vietnam [was] wrong, a criminal act, that an American 'victory' would have been a tragedy. Nothing could be more remote from the American political consciousness. So long as this remains true, we are fated to relive this horror."