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This theme of "impersonal warfare" was stressed throughout the first day of hearings. Eric Herter, VVAW coordinator for the three-day investigation, said in his opening remarks that "We have been participants in the new forms of war which are to replace the unpopular struggle of infantry patrol against guerilla band. Replace it with a greater atrocity than a hundred My Lais--the systematic destruction of thousands of innocent persons, of entire cultures by an automated electronic and mechanical death machine whose killing will be one-sided, unseen, and universal...
Today the veterans plan to carry out guerilla theatre "search and destroy" missions throughout the city, and increase lobbying efforts on members of Congress. One vet coordinator said last night that "the reliving of war experiences may give us a few surprises, but I hope the effects...
...other war in Laos is the war between the Pathet Lao guerilla forces and the central government in Vientiane. In some respects this war resembles the conflict in South Vietnam, pitting a right-wing army that is virtually a creation of the United States against a popular leftist insurgency with a strong nationalist identification. There is a stark difference between American strategies in Laos and Vietnam however; in Laos, the single basic element of U.S. policy has been and continues to be massive aerial bombardment of the civilian population...
...think the U.S. has finally found a counterinsurgency strategy that they think will work, that they think they can use everywhere? There used to be theorizing about such things as counter-guerilla groups, now they have this theory of just bombing the hell out of everything...
...another inmate, a shot from a guard's rifle-from knowing that your "privilege" of writing letters may be revoked at the guard's discretion, that you may drop without a trace into the cesspool of the prison system, of the hole, isolation, solitary. It is the style of guerilla field diaries. If George Jackson had not been the sort of man, honest, uncompromising and brilliant, that his letters reveal him to be, he would not have been considered a trouble-maker by the prison authorities; his letters would not be worth reading and he would not have been charged...