Rodney Frelinghuysen Quotes

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Insurgencies are nearly as old as warfare itself.

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

I do not want to lead an army of mercenaries.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we'd be walking through the fields and get shot at - and we'd just keep walking.

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

War is death's feast.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren’t exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.