Neil Sheehan Quotes

Neil Sheehan
American Journalist
Born: Oct 27, 1936
Because People Think War Would You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. Neil Sheehan
Life Love Time You People Remember Value Spend Those Ours Phrases About True Like Well Around How Discover Any Human Just Just As Much Children Them Asians Much Vietnamese Human Life Certainly
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
Truth War Win Country Those Moral Would See General Outrage Over Felt Advisor Ambassador Denying Did Reporting Just Just As Much Wanted Much Help Who Kept
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. Neil Sheehan
Man Veterans Men Fighting Blamed Never Wrongfully Were Been Vietnam Should Rejected
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
War Generation Those Out Stayed My Generation Never Obsessed Because Got Years Covering Event Away Started
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
Good Thought Whatever Would Simply Because Were American Wanted Succeed Right
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
Success War Leadership Prevail World Political Country Military Assume Tremendous Would Had Simply Like Because Were Been Began Story Turn Century Success Story Who World War British World War II
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. Neil Sheehan
Good You People Remember Pain Think Other Others Saw Those Out Carry Would Purpose Purposes Could Excuse Because Were American Inflict Justify Innately
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. Neil Sheehan
War Other Countries Unthinkable Occurred Communist Each Two

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