Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Vietnam War in a nutshell

Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) in Apocalypse Now: "Oh man ... the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it. No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away." And they did, of course, at the price of 50,000 American lives. "The horror" indeed.

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