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...Walzer, public meetings such as the Goldberg affair, were not intellectual experiences, but they were not worthless either. "The meeting caused many students to reevaluate our Administration's policies," Walzer, who participated in the Goldberg confrontation, said. However, the smaller meetings give politicians a chance to be plausible, and they also give students the impression that they are being let in on state secrets, he said. "In formal meetings there are formal ways of being impolite, but when an official is 'letting his hair down' it is virtually impossible to be critical," he said. To ensure that politicians...
MICHAEL L. WALZER, associate professor of Government, takes a slightly less tolerant view of the Institute: "In the final analysis, I am not convinced that the Institute is necessary; both its intentions and its functions have yet to be made clear." Walzer (who taught what he described as the first and only theory course at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) said that the primary danger of the Kennedy Institute is that it will create an over-fascination with policy questions, and will entice students away from studying history and philosophy...
...them, though, came to Sunday's meeting with very different kinds of questions--something Dunlop encouraged. Loud, who has been building up a file on Vietnam for years, wanted to challenge the official history of the war. Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, tried to point out inconsistencies in Administration policy. Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, talked about long-range policy in Southeast Asia. Gregory Craig '67, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, concentrated on problems of leadership; Jay B. Stephens '68, now president of the Young Republicans, on tactics...
...none of them were very satisfied with Goldberg's answers. He had not come armed with the facts and figures necessary for the kind of debate Loud wanted, nor did he engage in the kind of speculation Walzer and Schelling wanted. He was waiting for someone to ask him about the alternatives he sees for Vietnam in the very near future; nobody...
...WALZER: I want to raise again the question of the human cost of this bloody war. It's inevitable, I'm afraid, that if we choose to fight against guerrilla forces which have substantial popular support, we are going to kill a lot of people who are not guerillas. That's what we are doing in Vietnam. In a report to the House of Representatives last year, Congressman Zablocki of Wisconsin estimated that about 6 civilians were killed for each Viet Cong guerrilla killed in a significant number of U.S. military operations examined by his subcommittee. That is an extremely...