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De twee mata BC RI eee n c ' “liberal” alternative to the policies of the Johnson Administration...” \ os . : - bad , 4 Loe. (Ee ceralism: A Dead-End Ideg?o f . - “-" mys protest is aimed not nt Robert Kennedy as an individual, but rather at the political philosophy he represents. The American . people hive been deceived into believing that this man offers a . To be sure, he offers the Amcrican people different words than - President Johnson does, but his actions do not support his words, ~.: and his philosophy, the philosophy of liberrlism, is founded on the The case of Vietnam is probably the most clear-cut, as well as .° the most urgent, example of the deception and self-deception that is the stuff of American liberalism. Senator Kennedy has expressed *“reservations*® over the bombing of North Vietnam, but he continues . to vote for the appropriations which keep the bombs falling. Kennedy . is “concerned” about the troop build-up in South Vietnam, but today - he sits at the same platform as more-war candidate Duncan, a rubber- stamp supporter of Johnson policies. More important than his incon-= Sistencies, however, is nis misplaced emphisis. Kennedy is concerned more with how many bombs fall than why they are falling. He does not nsk the question why Americans are fighting and dying in Vietnam, He does not ask the question why the Vietnimese have continued to fight against foreign domination for the past 20 years - first against | Imperial Japan (as our allics), then against Colonial France, and now ©. Against Anti-Communist America. He docs not ask the question why America has set itself up as the policeman of the world or why America. - has opposed ltself to revolutions all over the world. Robert Kennedy .- .. docs not ask these questions becouse he cannot or will not escape the . .~ Simplistic assumptions concerning the world with which *liberals* delude themselves. To the "liberal”® the world is composed of “good guys" and "bad guys". Just like in the westerns, the “bad guys” and the "good guys" can be told apirt by the hits they wear, the hats of communism and anti-communism. Anyone who wears the tint of anti- communism ts our friend, whether the anti-~communism ve racist as in South Africa, fascist as in Sp:in, or a military dictatorship as in South Vietnam. Similarly, those who wear the hat of communism -~ or - anything that faintly resembles it - are treated with complete dis~ approval, if not outright hostility. [It matters little that,program | of those we rient in Vietnam (the Nabional Liberation Front) has wide popularity, a fact that 1s even admitted by the military govern~ Ment which ws support in Victram, - While ailitary war is raging in Asia, there is another war going _. on in this country. It is a war that we cannot hope to win so long as we embrace the "Liberal" attitude that human dignity can be bought with a welfare cneck. The "livcrals" in this country have begun a “war on povercys"; a war that is to be fought with two percent of the- funds that are going into the war in Asin, a war that is directed from afar, other than from the bittleficlds of the slums. The BtRNe pidtty of ists: policy is turning the sluas and the mhettoces into . literal battlefields as well as figurutive ones, 1t is turning black. | arainst white, poor against comfortable, and frustrated against cone_ Placent. , ; te The United States is fishtin-; and losing a two-front war which cannot be won until the delusions of liberalism are cast aside, and. -— Americans realistically strike at the heart of the problems that .. confront’ and threaten to destroy us. ° c . § The Portland Committee to End the War in Vietnam The Comaittee for Independent Political Action” sane faulty assumptions which are the gource of our present problems. 3" ' . . . Plt - on a ; PT em RITE Real a ar AR! Ne i ME A POL ¥ 1 J Ear ania Si oF TAT NET