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Hell, that's the reason for a lot of the "so-whatedness" about the CFIA bombing. The student community generally agrees that the government's military and economic exploitation must end; each person just chooses to fight in his own way. Those concerned with civility try a trip to Washington or an election campaign. Those not worried about being nice set bombs. That's their commitment. Carl Oglesby once wrote...
...decadent too, they continue to use the same moral categorizing. New Left radicals who push for a revolutionary alliance among students, minorities and Third World nations also consider the internal affairs of various sovereign nations the legitimate concern of their sweeping ideologies. Some of the academics who staff the CFIA and the students who assault it have in common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints of diplomacy. The delineation of the world into good guys and bad guys was lethal...
...author is director of the CFIA...
...outset that I do not like the CFIA. From what I have been able to find out, it seems that its work is largely devoted-under liberal cover-to perpetuating and supporting archaic and oppressive regimes among the United States client nations. That, however, does not mean that I was glad to see it bombed...
...bombing at the CFIA has little intrinsic importance. By great good luck, no one was hurt or killed. And given that, the fact that there was a bombing at Harvard becomes only a part of the question of bombings in general...