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January 19 - February 20, 2021
Military tactics and hardware are all well and good, but they are quite useless if one has lost the confidence of the population among whom one is fighting.�
“They have made a desert, and called it peace.�
“As long as we don’t give the Vietnamese the only program they could really be expected to fight for, we’re doomed to fight this war without any hopes for success and die here like mercenaries.
“Oh well,� said the colonel, puffing at his Gauloise, “they believe they’re doing the right thing and that’s the way it’s got to be. If they knew they were dying uselessly here, it would be like shooting them in the belly and kicking them in the behind at the same time. And when my aide eventually fries in his tank, I want him to believe that he’s frying for the good of the Country. That’s the least thing I can do for him.�
“There is a difference between us French and Don Quixote. Don Quixote rode against windmills believing they were giants, but we ride against windmills knowing that they are windmills but doing it all the same because we think that there ought to be someone in this materialistic world who rides against windmills,� Wainwright once said.
