• We did not go there as referees
• We did not get “sucked in”
• We did not go there with good intentions• We were not defending ourselves
• Vietnam did not invade or attack the United States
• The issue was not North Vietnam
• The issue was punishing South Vietnam
• We were not fighting communism
• Ho Chi Minh was not a communist
• The Viet Cong were defending their country
• Jane Fonda is tiresome, not a “traitor”
• The movies are, by subtraction, distortions—all of them
• The United States lost 58,000 service personnel
• Vietnam lost 2–3 million people
