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Though the appeal of the Hart pitch is understandable, it is exactly the type of misguided response Karnow says he is trying to avoid...
...public opinion survey [in 1964] asked the question 'What should we do next in Vietnam?' and 70 percent of the answers were. 'We're not paying attention to it'." Karnow recalled. "Today the opinion polls show far greater interest on the part of the public and much greater caution about involvement, not only in Vietnam, but in other places...
...CASE of Central America, Karnow argues that Vietnam has not made the U.S. public gun shy, but rather more inclined to protect the national interest through non-violent means. It seems, however, that Karnow is underestmating the sway Vietnam holds over the thinking of the 18-25 crowd, which forms a large part of Karnow's lecture-circuit audience...
...recent manifestation of the "no-more-Vietnams" sentiment among youth was the surge of support for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) in the recent primaries after Hart, without the sublety or the shadings of a Karnow or even a Walter F. Mondale, advocated an unequivocal non-interventionist line vis-a-vis the Middle East and Central America...
...Karnow probably realizes that the increased awareness about Vietnam--which he obviously finds beneficial for the country--could be channeled into a more explicitly isolationist foreign policy and a butt-headed unwillingness among youth to involve itself in any military enterprise to defend the national interest...