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"one conclusion can be asserted unequivocally;
The United States increased its commitment to a
prolongation of the Vietnam war at a time when)
the drift of the Saigon junta and of public
opinion was in the direction of negotiations for
a neutralized Vietnam. "1
Why a Foreign Policy Shift- The Essential Question
Unquestionably then, here - again we have definite action in
a context which calls for none. That there shoul d have been a
change in Vietnames policy so immediately after the murder of
Kennedy when the external situation in Vietnam did not evoke
it raises serious what caused it in our internal
situation. What is at stake here is not an academic issue, not an
argument about tehonicalities of how the assassination was done,
but fundamental questions concerning why it was done. At issue
are questions of war and peace that involve the whole of humanity.
Not only is it not irresponsible to raise questions concerning why
there are basic changes in foreign policy in the administration
that is vowing to uphhold the peaceful policies of the murdered
President, but rather not to raise such questions is to be guilty
of reckless cowardice.
If we are wrong in supposing there is a deliberate correlation
between the change in foreign policy and the assassination, really
little is to be lost except our face, which is not worth one human
being's one minute of life. If, however, we are right, there is a
2. Ibid. pp. 32-33.
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