How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Apocalypse Now.
Quote #4
WILLARD (quoting Kurtz): As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.
Kurtz thinks the higher-ups do things that are effectively as immoral as anything Kurtz does, but view Kurtz as being worse since he's broken the chain of command. They're all hypocrites in Kurtz's not-so-humble opinion.
Quote #5
CHIEF: You're on your own, captain. You wanna go on? Like this bridge: we build it every night. Charlie blows it right back up again. Just so the generals can say the road's open. Think about it. Who cares?
News of the Vietnam war was on the TV news every single day. Were Americans hearing the truth about the progress of the war?
Quote #6
WILLARD: My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green Beret Colonel up there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to kill him.
CHEF: What? Oh, that's typical! S***! F***in' Vietnam mission! I'm short, and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? That's f***in' great! That's just f***in' great! S***! That's f***in' crazy! I thought you were going in there to blow up a bridge, or some f***ing railroad tracks or something!
Chef thinks it's a "typical" Vietnam mission because it's totally screwed up: instead of destroying the enemy, Willard's supposed to kill one of their own guys. It just demonstrates that the war is an ethical mess.