Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

This looks like a real war zone to me. Thirty years ago, I was in Vietnam, and I haven't seen such devastation since then,