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Thursday, July 25, 1968
The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
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To the Editor: I too am concerned about the war in Vietnam, but I am also concerned about deceptions of the American people whether it be by the administration in the form of a credibility gap or by the John Birch Society forming front groups. TRAIN is a front group of the John Birch Society which often employs the technique of front groups like the Communists in the 1940’s. (“The Radical Right,” Epstein and Forster, 1967, p. 158.) Robert Welch, the founder and ruler of the Birch Society, first proposed the formation of TRAIN (To Restore American Independence Now) in the Society’s “Bulletin” of May, 1966. “Study Clubs” are another favorite vehicle, and their formation has been witnessed in this area. Often the “front” will have a high sounding purpose like “Support Your Local Police.” Naturally all decent citizens wish to give their police the support and respect which is their due. But the Birch Society is using this seemingly high-minded front group not to gain support for police but rather to gain members for their secret society. Robert Welch wrote in the Society’s “Bulletin” of June, 1966, “For probably two-thirds of the people in the United States who are now giving their moral backing to the “Support Your Local Police” campaigns do not have any idea that this began as, and still is, a John Birch Society project. Which is all right with us.” The Birch Society continually hides behind these front groups. A majority of its members conceal their affliation. Like the Communist party and the Ku Klux Klan, it functions in the greatest secrecy. The Birch Society’s basic philosophy and at the same time their most vulnerable failing is that they expound the conspiracy theory of history. They believe that a small evil group of Communists plan and control the events of our personal lives and our nation’s destiny. William Buckley, true conservatism’s most eloquent spokesman, has referred to t h i s conspiracy theory as “paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.” The Oct. 1965, issue of Buckley’s “National Review” contains numerous articles attacking the Birch Society. • Frank Meyer another another conservative writer for this magazine, wrote that the minds of the Birchers had been “warped by adherence to their unrolling psychosis of conspiracy.” I will next turn my attention to the three points of the TRAIN (Birch) program. The first point was to stop all trade with all our communist enemies though it is hard to look in Yugoslavia and some other Eastern European countries as any more hostile to U.S. interests than say the Republic of France. One of the first major questions to arise
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is who is the major supplier of the enemy. Back in 1964, I.F. Stone proved in his “Weekly”^ by using U.S. government figures that captured U.S. weapons and supplies stolen through massive corruption in S. Vietnam were then the major source of supply. A cessation of trade with communist countries would not have altered this tragic fact. Today Red China increasingly supplies N. Vietnam and the Viet Cong, but the United States does not trade with her. Russia is also supplying aid, and we do trade with Russia. But we do not give weapons to the Russians to pass on to the war in Asia. Russia was in dire need of food to feed her people internally, and we sold it to her for gold which strengthened our position in the^ world economic situation. Aid to N. Vietnam from Eastern European countries is minor because they are trying to build up their own economies. It is wise to remember what former Prime Minister McMillan said in his speech here in Greencastle. He predicted that in the end the war would be settled by an agreement between Moscow and Washington rather than on the battlefield. If that is true, it would be absurd to risk the alienation of Russia which could destroy such a hope for agreement. It seems that TRAIN thinks the only way to confront com- , munism is w i t h bullets and bombs, but we may also confront communism by showing it the weaknesses 8f its economic system. If we had never traded with the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, Czeckeslo-
vakia would now be rebelling nor would have Yugoslavia and Bulgaria adopted our capitalistic methods and enhanced the individual liberties of their people. It is interesting to note that Yugoslavia outlawed wiretapping the same week the U.S. Congress legalized it. The Communist movement today is not monolithic largely because many formerly hardline countries have adopted Western ways, though any sane talk of the Communist monolith should have ended with the Moscow-Peking split. The other false assumption is that our only enemy in Vietnam is communism. We are unfortunately fighting a highly national, istic movement whose members for the most part are not the least bit interested in further, ing communism dr even knowledgeable about its ideology. For many Vietnamese are only fight, ing a governmental structure which at best has been distant and unrepresentative and at worst has been unpopular and repressive. Their second point is to call for military victory. They seem to ignore the best advice of the past military leaders like Ridgeway and Montgomery that it is impossible to win a land war in Asia. It is infinitely harder to win a guerilla struggle. We have to add several men to offset one additional man of the enemy. Ridgeway said during the Korean War that bombing was highly ineffective and could not stop supplies, and that war even had fixed fronts. As our bombing has increased, so has enemy in. filtration and the movement of supplies. Perhaps the best analysis of the cry for victory was
given by the late Robert Kennedy before he announced his inten. tion to seek the Presidency. In a speech in early February he said, “We have misconceived the nature of the war... We have sought to resolve by military might a conflict whose issue depends upon the will and con. viction of t h e S. Vietnamese people. It is like sending a lion to halt an epidemic of jungle rot. This misconception rests on a second illusion, the illusion that we can win a war which the S. Vietnamese cannot win for themselves... Government corruption (in Saigon) is t h e source of the enemy’s strength... We have an ally in name only. We support a government without supporters. The third illusion is that the
unswerving pursuit of military victory, whatever it cost, is in the interest of either ourselves or the people of Vietnam.. Their tiny land has been devastated by a weight of bombs and shells greater than Nazi Germany knew... More than 2 million S.
Vietnamese are now homeless refugees... Whatever the outcome of these battles, it is the people we seek to defend who are the greatest losers... The fourth illusion is that the American national interest is Continued on Page 7
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