The Road Not Taken Quotes

“The key American shortcoming, in the early twenty-first century as in the 1960s, was the inability to constructively guide the leaders of allied states in the direction desired by Washington”
― Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

“In Pharaoh’s Army,”
― Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

“McCarthy was an Irish Catholic small-town judge and a dipsomaniac with a vengeful streak and an exaggerated war record as a Marine tail gunner (he had not actually flown in combat). “Ignorant, crude, boastful, unaware of either intellectual or social refinements,”
― Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam