Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 90, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 July 1966 — Page 2

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Dear Friends, Greetings from Vietnam! I have been in, this strangely beautiful, but tragically torn land for a littli more than three n snths. I'am now working as n edical assistant with a medical ad agricultural team in the highly nd city of Pleiku. Our project is o e of several being sponsored by Vietnam Christian Service —an interdenominational organization working in the areas of public health, refugee relief, and agricul-

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‘ural and community, v deyeloprnent - several locations of South Vietnam. -! Here in Pleiku, we are anxlusly awaiting the completion of ur new clinic facilities. Already n operation is an Agricultural .’raining Center serving nearby .ribal villages. ThiS is exciting and •hallenging \ybrk, and fives- us an almost unparalleled opportunity to make an effective and realistic witness for Peace and the power of Love. It is our hope that you will

support our work with your houghts and prayers. Even more, However, wp ask your prayerful concern, and its active expression, for the tragic situation of these :ourageous, but War-weary people. Yours in Christ, Bill Herod Dear Sir, I would like to thank a man in our community for his time and >atience. Asa mother of the Shaver league, it ,is nice, to see someone who will take time to show our boys how to play baseball as well as how to /play as a team. I have seeh some of the games and his patiences are wonderful. Thank you Mr. Toni Brad-

way for helping my hoy as well as other young men who play under your guidance. Thank you, Mrs. Daryle Eaton vl ■ Dear Editor, I would like to present the following point-by-point refutation of Senator Birch Bayh’s recent letter in favor of the war in Vietnam: 1. “We were invited by the South Vietnamese government to assist them in their fight against terrorism and aggression.” We Were not invited to Vietnam by a true ‘government,’ since none has been elected; we were invited by a military dictator Diem whom the United States set up because of lobbying tactics by a group including Cardinal Spellman of New York. Diem was a Europeanized Roman Catholic, left over from the French regime’ in a Buddhist and oriental country. And the fight we came to assist was his fight which was as much against the Buddhist majority of South Vietnam as against the rebel Viet

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Cong. In other words, our initial effort was to create a military stronghold in Southeast Asia to further our own nation’s policy of curbing Communistic influence — no matter who manned that stronghold and no matter how it interfered with private destiny of the people living in that stronghold. (For it was a nation once, you know, with its own distinctive culture and educational and political system.) With our usual godlike condescension we presumed that they were a ‘primitive’ people with no native culture. We have aggravated the military, Buddhist, Viet Cong division of South Vietnam to the point where we have created further civil war: now it is a civil war of those trying to save their own Vietnam and its ancient ways against those who sold themselves to America’s orivate international aims. ,2. Our purpose, says Senator Bayh, is “to convince the aggressors that theirs is not a valid means of gaining control of a country.” Is the American way of gaining control to be preferred? To ignore the plan for free elections set up by the Geneva Conference? To set up, instead, pur own military dictators, (sympathetic to our own military strategies and indifferent to moral questions), Diem and now Ky? And who are the “aggressors” he peaks of? Is it the Vietcong who, no matter how much aid they receive from the North, have been oroven to be a native-born South Vietnamese rebellion against successive foreign occupations of their country by the French and now the Americans? Would not .he word “aggressor” apply more clearly to America as it interferes in a civil war on the opposite side of the globe and tries to turn it to its own uses? A recent Japanese film called “Vietnam in Turmoil” shows Ky’s men, trained and supervised by the American Green Beret, torturing South Vietnamese ‘suspects’ (p rolo ng e and drowning, electric charges: methods learned from the ‘civilized’ French) —. a military government tends to use such whimsical tactics. The film also verified Senator Morse’s accusation .hat American .occupation has turned Saigon,- literally, into a brothel. I certainly ho hope those people appreciate being ‘saved.’ 3. “There, is- no question in my mind that our administration is sincere in' to reach *a negotiated setUemc nt .. . If this is the case, one must believe that the Pope and the U.N.’s U Thant and numerous heads of state are liars; despite Worldwide efforts to force the opposing forces to a peace conference, the United States has never consented to recognize the South Vietnamese Vietcong, who presently control most of the land area in South Vietnam: this refusal to Tecognize the Vietcong, guaranteed to stop any peace effort before it begins,, is a fact which Johnson and Rusk continue to conceal behind their political gobbledygook. 4. It is interesting to note that

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Senator Bayh turns now to a discussion of NATO and tries to patch over the cracks in the wall. The obstinate obsession of the United States to continue a futile war has split the European organization into those who flatter and encourage American pride in order to get money and support for their own needs, versus those who feel morally obliged, at all costs, to oppose the bullheaded insanity of it. In young, superpatriotic countries like the United States we are persuaded to reduce all world problems to “we, the virtuous” and “they, the monsters.” Hurling the word “Communists” is supposed to automatically make us believe that we are still just and good: it spares us the task of making moral decisions. Well, the MATO crisis reveals the complete immaturity of this, and it also reveals that the rest of the world will not much longer tolerate our failure to grow up. The French occupation of Vietnam was ended by an adamant French public. OeGaulle himself denounces the former French madness of Vietnam and Algeria. And if DeGaulle, a military man and far more Rightist than Leftist, finds hat he has more in common with Russia than the United States, are the American people still gong to settle for such childish explanations as that offered by Senator Bayh. What do DeGaulle and iosygin have so much in common that it trahscends all poltical differences? their oppostion to Vietnam—their opposition o willful American ambition's heir oppostion to LBJ'fe attempts to make his Great Society extend aver the globe like the Roman empire.

Simple explanations satisfy only the blind believers; but America is not a Church, it’s a political system kept vital by constant questioning and debate. What has happened to Americans? They treat their leaders like High ?riests who hand down the word and the law. Why are they wiling to be so passive? Because hey would rather not know too nuch: for knowing incurs responsibility. And if we don’t know, if ve keep the facts from reaching us, we can go on shirking the responsibility. 5. “It is imperative to make every attempt to bring some understanding to the American people of the type of warfare now utilized by the Communists.” The type of warfare being used by the Vietcong is the same used by the American Indian when Europeans came to dispossess them of their land: concealment and ambush. Let us speak also of the type of warfare utilized by the Americans. I don’t know if the newspapers in Indiana print as many war photos as those in California. The photos tell more than words can: Mothers pleading on their knees as their ‘suspect’ teenage sons are shot. Hundreds of photographs of women and children covered with napalm burns, missing limbs. The Pentagon publishes its military losses, and, of course, it neglects to publish the fact that, by over-

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whelming majority, the casualties are civilians. This is the result of napalm and the indiscriminate bombing of the jungles. Now the only ‘saffe’ place for the Vietnamese peasant 'is, in the cities: there, jobless, he i lives subject to the police state harrassments of a military government; subject to incredible poverty and filthy and finally leprosy .in many cases. I hope they appreciate being “freed.” When one considers the millions of black Africans who are living under Nazi-like states run by a handful of whites, one wonders why American ‘idealism’ extends only to southeast Asia? The answer is that our politicians* humanitarian’ reasons for this war are a sop thrown to the American people who are considered too naive and simple (and they are, evidentially) to comprehend more complex political motives. We are not there to people, or we would be figlmng in South Africa as well. The ‘people’ are irrelevant to our current foreign policy: the true aim is to gain possession of a certain portion of land on which to plant our ideology in a part of the world influenced by another ideology: in the way that Kruschev tried to plant a bit of Russia in Cuba. We feel our own anger over this incident was justified, but we cannot understand why China should continue to make hostile pronouncements just because we keep our Seventh Fleet off their shores, try to plant missiles in Japan ( a plan Japan firmly rejected), and now try to set up Vietnam as an isolated fort in the enemy (It isn’t even plausible as military strategy!) If this is not a policy of “aggression” 1 would like to hear some sound arguments refuting what I say? But don’t rely on the Senators for such an argument: they know that if they want to continue to get what they want for. their particular states they havfe to

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keep on the good side of Johnson, that willful old man. And they continue to believe as long as their constituents are welHed they will go on believing anything that’s told them. And they’re right. What most Americans want is not the facts; they want only an argument that will lay to rest the doubts that upset their full stomaches: Put to sleep the painful perceptions of a conscience struggling to wake up: I only want to be happy, don’t trouble me about Vietnam. Forget the morality of it; use a strong arm and get it over with and bury it. But force alone will never win the world to democracy: and raw force has a way of rebounding and then morality will come, too late, with a blow on the head. Force, without the reins of morality, is a horse run wild, as ambitious for world-domination as any totalitarian power. Yours, James Eilers