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Girding itself for the return of Dow recruiters to campus on February 23, Students for a Democratic Society passed a proposal last night which emphasized alleged University involvement in the war, rather than Dow's production of napalm...
...Walter Mittys of the left," we who oppose napalm recruitment, who use terms like "genocide" too loosely (or is it too strictly?), who would deny "free speech" to men who authorize the unashamed bombing of civilians. Surely, it is his best new cliche since that memorable press conference after the Dow demonstration, when he invoked the sanctity of our "decent democratic society." One wonders who is the real Walter Mitty...
Secondly, why single out the manufacturer of Napalm? Why not also those firms who make parts for jets, gunpowder, and sophisticated weapons...
...military aim of this conflict (as opposed to the social aim) is to kill or capture the enemy. Whether this is done by dropping into his lap Napalm, a thousand pound bomb, or an 8 in. artillery shell leaves a very slight difference...
...aside here is that Napalm is an effective weapon that is used many times, to solve a particular situation. It is used often when Vietcong have U.S. troops pinned down (usually in ambush). We have no way of knocking out these bunkers without sustaining or risking sustaining heavy losses. Artillery cannot penetrate the earthen cover to the necessary depth and neither many times can bombs. Napalm can put "Charlie" out of action not by burning but by suffocation as the Napalm burning on the surface uses up available Oxygen in the tunnels...