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...Says Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "Those who didn't serve have a bad conscience. Those who did and those who supported the war and then changed their minds have a bad conscience. And the way we treated the soldiers who served there gives us all a bad conscience." Those who fought in the war carried a burden of guilt unrelieved by the customary rites of absolution, by the parades, the welcome home, the collective embrace that gathers a soldier back into the fold of the community after he has been sent out to commit the inevitable horrors of a war that...
Those who stayed home, or even fought in the streets to keep from going, now feel guilty about those who fought and never came home. Most of those who sent the soldiers to Viet Nam are still pained by what they did, and they usually cannot--or will not try to--explain it. Veterans speak most bitterly about those who sent them half a world away to die and then retreated into silence when the war went...
Perhaps the most important change in American attitudes toward the war in the past few years has been the public acceptance of those who fought. The Viet Nam veteran, after a long struggle, has acquired a considerable respect--if not entirely the Government benefits (educational and medical) that he deserves. One sees the change in television shows, for example, or in movies. During the '70s, the Viet Nam veteran was often portrayed as a murderous psychotic (as in the 1978 movie Taxi Driver) or as a drug-wasted, haunted loser. In Coming Home, he became more sympathetic, though...
...F.M.L.N. also seems to have adopted new tactics, or, rather, old ones. After a period in which the insurgents fought increasing numbers of pitched battles with the army, they now appear to have reverted to more classic guerrilla methods. When faced with superior firepower, they retreat; when the army moves on, they regroup in their old haunts. Last week, however, the army claimed a major victory over the elusive rebels. A military spokesman contended that one of the country's most important guerrilla commanders, Joachin Villalobos, of the group known as the People's Revolutionary Army, had been shot...
...that loss inevitable, or could the war have been won with different strategy and tactics? Was the war fought for the right reasons? Did its aftermath prove or explode the domino theory? The questions are not in the least academic. They bear on the all-important problem of whether, when and how the U.S. should again send its troops to fight abroad...