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...street had the largest collection of bars and bordellos in Vietnam--less than a half mile from Nguyen Van Thieu's home. Monks burned themselves in the streets; soldiers bought bar girls Saigon Tea for two bucks a shot and got blown up by bicycles laden with explosives; NLF agents lived next door to petty government officials. Hundreds of crippled war veterans angrily confronted the state with demands for housing and health care, descending on the presidential palace, in wheelchairs and on crutches, like some surreal army. It was all to much for Americans to think about...
...think we need to remember and to be honest. We have to recognize our complicity in war crimes, or it may happen again. We need to recapture our own revolutionary tradition, and to recognize that other liberation movements, including the NLF, are ours as well. But we can't do this by hero-worship: every revolution, as Shaw occasionally pointed out and as the NLF has occasionally proved by its executions of province chiefs and the like, attracts those for whom established injustice is too exacting as well as those for whom it is not exacting enough. Neither...
There was the October Vietnam Moratorium, when 110,000 people poured onto Boston Common. The Harvard Faculty debated whether formally to endorse the Moratorium. I was just working out the distinction between professional football and the NLF. In November, there was a second moratorium, this time drawing a quarter of a million people to Washington. Antiwar leaders were gaining confidence after all, Nixon could not ignore protests of such immense proportions, could he? He did. In fact, he has fulfilled the prophesy of an editorial The Crimson published on the day of the October Moratorium which warned...
Attempting to orient the anti-war movement toward overt support of the NLF would, however, be unwise, and perhaps disastrous. American support of the NLF will have no effect on the course of South Vietnamese politics, yet it could divide the movement in the United States enough to assure the indefinite continuation...
...program of support for the NLF will seriously hamper the recruiting efforts needed to achieve this end. To bring one citizen around to backing immediate withdrawal on this basis--or to convince one already in favor of withdrawal to take action to show his support--will require convincing them that the NLF is a positive good deserving their wholehearted support...