Vietnam Air Offensive

Famous quotes containing the words vietnam, air and/or offensive:

    “Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)

    “I moved like a lobster,
    slower and slower.
    The air was tiny.
    The air would not do.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)