Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that by now almost everyone has finally come to see the depravity of the American involvement in Southeast Asia. There's little point in shouting and waving banners today. The student movement discovered last spring that no amount of shouting would move the Nixon Administration to stop the slaughter, that no amount of shouting would persuade Congress to step in and attempt to save America's soul. We had learned the year before that neither shouting nor reasoned arguments could persuade even this University to face the facts of the war's insanity and of the University's deep...
...lost their lives in combat), so perhaps it's not surprising that there are few politicians among its ranks. Still there is Powers Hapgood (d., 1949), who completed Harvard in three years so he could spend his senior year working in iron and coal mines, railroad yards and Chicago slaughter houses. Hapgood went on to become a leader of the United Mine Workers, a defeated Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, a major organizer of the CIO and an early member of the NAACP...
...part, Kissinger is certainly willing to escalate further. He is hard-line and uncompromising. The more frustrated a problem gets, the more vindictive and personalized his judgment becomes. And he has yet to recognize that it would require little less than wholesale slaughter to defeat Hanoi and the NLF in their active lands. "Henry," an ex-aide said recently, "is not willing to accept the imbalance of power which is there as a reality...
...wholesale slaughter does not stray far from describing current U. S. policy in Indochina. For years American bombers have pounded the land and people of three countries in Southeast Asia. They have murdered hundreds of thousands, created millions of refugees in South Vietnam and Cambodia, and forced much of the population of Laos to live in underground caves. And the bombing policy is not something which Nixon and Kissinger merely inherited from their predecessors. They have broadened and intensified it. And it is not so much that the bombing has been a successful military tactic as part of the policy...
...persuasively attack the University for complicity in imperialism at home and abroad because the University has instrumentalized itself. It has said that moral judgments are irrelevant, that research is value-free, that the wanton slaughter of Orientals is less important than the niceties of free speech. Such is the sickness of "pure rationality." The University produces Walt Rostows. Henry Kissingers, McGeorge Bundys. It can carry on its affairs with a president who refuses to see undergraduates, and a dean who blithely and automatically reduces emotionally-charged issues such as equal sex admissions to an abstract discussion of "relative pain levels...