« The "accelerated pacification campaign" that follows the Tet offensive is an operation of mass killings that demolishes the FLN and its peasant base. It kills tens of thousands and ruins what is left of the country. The southern part of North Vietnam is reduced to a lunar landscape; Laos is subject to one of the heaviest bombings in history that destroys a rural society that has nothing to do (as Washington acknowledges) with the war in South Vietnam. The United States also bombarded Cambodia with invading and destroying much of it, rallying the peasants to the cause of the Khmer Rouge, who were still a marginal force. »

« The delayed attention paid to the My Lai massacre is part of a subtle form of concealment of atrocities. (...) Arbitrarily exceptional in order to divert attention from other possible investigations, its dramatization has even served to demonstrate that America has a conscience in the face of the enemy's provocations. »

« But the United States has not achieved its ultimate goal. They did not turn Vietnam into a imitation Philippines, i.e. a colony. The war is therefore considered a failure. But they still achieved their main goals. Jimmy Carter, in what should be considered one of the most incredible comments of any head of state anywhere, said at a press conference that we have no debt to Vietnam because "the destruction has been mutual". »