Vietnam and the Left: A Symposium

Yes, it is imperative that we urge immediate withdrawals of U.S. troops and military forces from South Vietnam—while keeping in mind that with so large a force “immediate withdrawal” will require weeks or months even if begun at once. Unlikely though it is that the U.S. government will follow this course, it is imperative for the independent radical to urge it, if only because it helps to pressure the government from further expanding this war. When a radical, confronted by profound political immorality, limits his appeals and suggestions to those steps the government is going to take anyway, or is likely to take, the radical movement has lost its moral basis for existence and has also lost the intellectual basis which mark...