In A Democracy, Dissent Is An Act

There Has Been A Strong Tradition In This Country That It Is Not The Function Of The Military To Educate The Public On Political Issues.

Education Is A Slow Moving But Powerful Force

In A Democracy Dissent Is An Act Of Faith. Like Medicine, The Test Of Its Value Is Not In Its Taste, But In Its Effects.

To Ask For Overt Renunciation Of A Cherished Doctrine Is To Expect Too Much Of Human Nature. Men Do Not Repudiate The Doctrines And Dogmas To Which They Have Sworn Their Loyalty. Instead They Rationalize, Revise, And Re-interpret Them To Meet New Needs And New Circumstances, All The While Protesting That Their Heresy Is The Purest Orthodoxy.

I'm Sure That President Johnson Would Never Have Pursued The War In Vietnam If He'd Ever Had A Fulbright To Japan, Or Say Bangkok, Or Had Any Feeling For What These People Are Like And Why They Acted The Way They Did. He Was Completely Ignorant.