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Beginning in the column to the left is an affidavit written by A. Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT and noted antiwar activist and author. In the column to the right is an affidavit written by journalist Fred Branfman to accompany Chomsky...
...Tuesday October 26, a little over a week ago, a group of about 1000 demonstrators met in Washington to take another try at making a protest to end the war. The group was striking in no way except size: it was one of the smallest nationally publicized antiwar protests to date. Almost all of the demonstrators were familiar with Washington and militant protest. They talked of Mayday, the Pentagon, Chicago, and hoped that, despite their small number, this protest, dubbed the Nixon Eviction, would become something to talk about later...
...requires no great amount of insight to see that there is something wrong in this protest, that there is in fact something wrong with the enormous decline in antiwar activity since 1970. The cause for protest, the war, remains, yet the student movement--the backbone of the antiwar movement--appears somnolent, if not moribund...
When I returned from Washington after last week's depressing protest, a guy in one of my classes assured me of his deep opposition to the war, but said he questioned the efficacy of the tactics of current antiwar protests. A despair over tactics, a feeling that we aren't getting anywhere, has logically become stronger as the was has continued. Any demonstration observed alone appears in retrospect to have accomplished nearly nothing...
Though his hatred of the war is all but incandescent throughout, Glasser's book is more complex than an antiwar document. He sympathetically records, for example, the story of "Mccabe," an intelligent and ambitious college man who joined the Army, passed OCS, then entered Ranger training, partly out of some sense of what Yeats called "the fascination of what's difficult." A personal ethic of excellence propelled him to master the techniques of survival and killing. There is a larger American lesson in him. Mccabe wound up, 27 days after he arrived in Viet Nam, sitting...