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...present situation in Vietnam is obviously largely attributable to a lack of foresight on the part of seemingly well-intentioned leaders. As Tom Wicker put it, we (and they) were fooling ourselves. And it seems that Senator McGovern was less fooled than the rest...
...Midlands, whole streets have become immigrant ghettos. Shops are stocked with curries and spices; street vendors hawk mangoes and yams and custard apples. In Leeds, cinemas show Punjabi films on Sundays. In Coventry, Indians can occasionally be seen on their porches playing pipes to pet cobras in wicker baskets...
...before Tom Wicker had tried to instill in us a sense of sin. (Sin, of course, not being part of our "modern" consciousness, it was easy to misunderstand his words. After all, how could one see in PL's self-righteousness the self-aggrandizement of American capitalism, how could the liberals be brought to see their complicity in bureaucratic deception, how could any of us purge ourselves of self-serving self-righteousness?) "I believe with Faulkner that the basis of all things is to be afraid," Wicker said. "If we believe that only success matters, then we have failed before...
...perhaps the most popular speaker was Tom Wicker, whose recent articles in the New York Times have suggested the need for radical change. "The American people have not just been duped into a disaster," Wicker said. "There is something deeply wrong in our country and it is not merely the war in Vietnam. The war is the sickest fruit, but it is not all." Cheers. And raising the Nazi comparison, Wicker said, "We are spreading the holocaust in Indochina. Twenty-five years ago, I went to Auschwitz. There will never be in Indochina a glass case of the eyeglasses...
...Wicker said, "We must face up to the fact that there is something deeply wrong in our country and the war is only the sickest fruit...