Letters

In “How Critical Is Our Condition?” (Dissent, Fall 1981), Dennis Wrong inaccurately equates opposition to the Vietnam War with isolationism when he writes that McGovern’s 1972 candidacy represented “an essentially isolationist rejection of American involvement in world politics.” McGovern sensibly called for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, but he was (and is) hardly an isolationist. In ’72 he supported greatly expanded and improved U.S. developm...