The Top Sixteen Westmoreland Quotations

16. Motives: In an oral history interview: “I diligently tried to do a good job, not because I was bucking for anything higher, but because I was trying to do a job for the sake of doing a good job. That was my orientation. As a matter of fact, it was throughout my career. It was to do a job for …

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Written by Lewis Sorley on Monday October 10, 2011

Exclusive Quotes from `Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam'

Perhaps the most outstandingly original history of the Vietnam War is Lewis Sorley's A Better War . A Better War describes the US fight in Southeast Asia between 1969 and 1972. The US forces switched then from a big-unit strategy adapted from the Korean experience toward counterinsurgency …

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Written by David Frum on Monday October 10, 2011

What a Difference a Year Makes

One year ago, Obama was telling us Iraq was unwinnable and that it was distracting us from Afghanistan. Now President Obama is packing up in Iraq and telling us Afghanistan isn't winnable. President Obama A year ago, this man was telling us the surge wouldn't work, that Iraq was …

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Written by Sean Linnane on Tuesday September 1, 2009