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Shoup

David M. Shoup, a former commandant of the Marine Corps and a bearer of the
Congressional Medal of Honor, is one that particularly comes to mind, as a
new biography of him has been written by Howard Jablon, a professor at
Purdue University in Indiana. From the perspective of VVAW and other
antiwar-veteran organizations, Shoup is best known for the following
quotation, voiced in 1966 at Pierce College outside Los Angeles about a year
after the antiwar movement arose on U.S. college campuses:

"I don't think," he told his audience then, "the whole of Southeast Asia,
as
related to the present and future safety and freedom of the people of this
country, is worth the life or limb of a single American [and] I believe that
if we had and would keep our dirty bloody dollar crooked fingers out of the
business of these nations so full of depressed exploited people, they will
arrive at a solution of their own design and want, that they fight and work
for. And if, unfortunately, their revolution must be of the violent type.at
least what they get will be their own and not the American style, which they
don't want.crammed down their throat" (p. 101).