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FORTUNATELY, the growing support for the NLF did not force radicals to adopt tactics markedly different from those of liberals who fought the war on loftier, more abstract moral grounds. The goal for both groups was the same: an immediate end to American military involvement in Indochina. The liberals wanted the killing to stop: the radicals wanted the killing to stop and the NLF...
...grounds of inhumanity, while others protested the choice of targets itself. Many began to support, in varying degrees, the North Vietnamese National Liberation Front. But, in either case, for every activist who had come this far, the basis for a firm and lasting alliance was laid. The most hardened NLF supporter and the people who pasted white doves and peace symbols on their windshields had one goal in common--the killing must stop...
...knowledge of the NLF and of North Vietnam grew, our political support for them also expanded. No longer was the killing itself our only reason for fighting against the war. A new dimension of hatred for the American government surged up in us. No longer were the actions of the U.S. government criminal merely because they unleased indiscriminate violence against a smaller nation. Now, we saw those actions as criminal because the destruction was intended to annihilate a people who were striving against almost insuperable odds to achieve some measure of dignity and control over their own lives--objectives Americans...
FORTUNATELY, the growing support for the NLF did not force radicals into tactics markedly different than those of the liberals who fought against the war on loftier, more abstract moral grounds. The goal for both groups was the same: an immediate end to American military involvement in Indochina. The liberals wanted the killing to stop; the radicals wanted the killing to stop and the NLF...
...OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the cease-fire violations are being instigated by the Thieu regime in hopes of retaining a maximum American presence in Vietnam to continue propping it up. Either the conflict will continue or the Thieu regime will gradually deflate. Americans who either support the NLF or simply want the fighting to end should share the same tactic: both groups should call for all parties to the peace agreement to abide scrupulously by its provisions. Additionally antiwar forces should press the American government to cut off financial aid to Thieu. Only in this way can the biggest obstacle...