The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one si...de won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a... sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks a...nd hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels' wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. ...We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help--because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main... sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child, ...for example, is also a more humane place for adults.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory,... The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The upbeat lawyer/negotiator of preadolescence has become a real pro by now--cynical, shrewd, a tough cookie. You're constantly em...broiled in a match of wits. You're exhausted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance--physical, emo...tional, intellectual and every other way ... Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its "national pastime" pedestal in less than fifteen years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »