Essay: THE VIETNIKS: Self-Defeating Dissent

WHO are they? These Americans parading about with placards and chanting: "Hey, hey, L.B.J.! How many kids did you kill today?" These burning-eyed youths who set fire to their draft cards and urge others to do the same? These interpositionists who stand on railroad tracks to block U.S. troop trains? These professors who insist that the war in Viet Nam is no more than the struggle of the peace-loving peasant to win the national independence and personal free dom denied him by U.S. intervention? What are they? Are they pacifists in any real meaning...

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