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Neil Sheehan Quotes


World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. Neil Sheehan Leadership 78
Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65. Neil Sheehan Car 74
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see. Neil Sheehan Ambassador 71
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. Neil Sheehan Brought 66
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. Neil Sheehan Assignment 46
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. Neil Sheehan Communist 35
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. Neil Sheehan Blamed 33
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. Neil Sheehan Leadership 32
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans. Neil Sheehan Right 32
I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it. Neil Sheehan Covering 26

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