“Those who hated the war decided to be so pure as to sit [the election] out. I was one of them. I know very few people who voted in that year, and we were wrong.”
“The same policy that led us, in countries like Poland, to champion the rights of the ordinary Poles, led us, in countries like Vietnam, to outdo the communists themselves at exterminating the peasantry. It became a monstrosity, that policy.”
