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This is not the first time Americans have seen their President respond to dissent by ignoring the issues and seeking to discredit dissenters themselves. But the Nixon scenario has a new and dangerous twist. By initiating unnecessary and arbitrary "safety" measures, the Administration has generated a threat of violence where none had existed before...
...serious mistake." This is only true if you warp the intention of a statement obviously made to discourage the Communist leadership in Hanoi. It is indeed ironic that this statement, made to reassure and encourage both our American forces and our South Vietnamese allies dying abroad, should discredit him so with those protesting from the safety of their homes...
Eventually Sontag discovers that the Vietnamese politeness is utterly unlike American social conventions, which hide the inner self. She writes that their sincerity is "a mode of ethical aspiration." Similarly, despite the way Americans are trained to discredit heroism, she realizes that the nobility and bravery of the Vietnamese are as real as they seem...
...nothing to do with these attacks on the people," the statement continues. "They are the work of provocateurs and police agents and those they mislead. Their aim is to discredit and destroy the student movement, and to discourage people from fighting the ways the system hurts them...
About 100 WSA-SDS supporters endorsed the press statement dissociating themselves from RYM at a meeting last night-with one amendment. The sentence calling RYM actions "the work of provocateurs and police agents" was omitted, and in the phrase "their aim is to discredit and destroy the student movement" 'aim' was changed to read 'effect...