Vietnam and the Left: A Symposium

Though I feel that the U.S. will have to withdraw all of its military forces from Vietnam if this disastrous chapter in our history is finally to be closed, I do not favor “immediate withdrawal.” There are no major political forces in the U.S. which would conceivably support such a proposal and hence it has no chance of being implemented. I do not think that radicals should proffer policies which do no good to anybody and only serve to gratify their own conscience.

One of t...