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...particular, Mr. McGill's excellent stand on racial justice must be contrasted with his deplorable views on Vietnam. An insistent supporter of the administration's tragic policy in southeast Asia, McGill (as well as the Constitution's editorials) would make his fellow-Georgian, Dean Rusk, proud. He has often substituted ridicule for reason, and he regularly employs the notion of "reason" in a most curious fashion...
...American actions. President Johnson warned against interpreting the bombing curtailment as a sign of weakness, but U.S. officials immediately called North Vietnam's acceptance of Paris a retreat. U.S. military men justify new military sweeps--the largest of the war--on the grounds that they're defensive, but Dean Rusk warns that any comparable Communist escalation will jeopardize peace talks...
...Ball was the Administration's most articulate war critic when he quit Washington for Wall Street in 1966. Candidly calling himself "the devil's advocate," he persistently opposed deepening the U.S. involvement in what he terms the Vietnamese "gluepot." Far more Europe-minded than his friend Dean Rusk, Ball believes that by making Viet Nam a major battleground with the Communists, the U.S. has failed to cope adequately with De Gaulle, jeopardized any new approach to China, and let the problem of a divided Germany fester far too long...
...warriors, aflap with American flags and buttons that read "Kill a Commie for Christ," lashed into a crowd of peace marchers, crying "Queers! Creeps! You Commie bastards!" One little old lady particularly incensed them with a sign reading TRADE DEAN RUSK FOR THE PUEBLO. Police quickly broke up the melee, and Mayor John Lindsay added: "This country is big enough to draw a distinction between a wrongful Government policy and respect for those men being killed...
Secondly, the willingness of Senator Kennedy '48, to accept support from Robert McNamara indicates, to put it mildly, that he does not understand the basis of opposition to American foreign policy. The War in Vietnam is not the result of the demonic malevolence of Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow (all, incidentally, selected by John F. Kennedy '40), but follows quite directly from the policies pursued by the first Kennedy Administration. There is no confidence that a new Kennedy Administration would not feature the return to office of many men, of whom McNamara is only one, whose views...