[Avaindimik]

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html .. . . Somehow this madness must stop. We ought to end now. I speak as a young child of God and brother to the putting up with poor of Vietnam. I speak for all those whose property has been laid waste, whose houses are being ruined, whose tradition has been subverted. I speak for poor people of America who're paying the double cost of smashed hopes at death and home and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a resident of the world, for the world because it stands aghast at the road we've taken. I speak being an American to the leaders of my very own country. The truly amazing effort in this battle is mine. The effort to prevent it must certanly be mine. This is actually the concept of the truly amazing Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one wrote these words: "Each time the battle continues the hate increases in one's heart of the Vietnamese and in the minds of those of humanitarian impulse. The Americans are making even their friends in to getting their opponents. It's curious that the Americans, who determine therefore watchfully on the options of military triumph, don't recognize that along the way they're experiencing deeply political and mental defeat. The image of America won't ever again function as the image of liberty, innovation and democracy, however the image of violence and militarism." You will see no question in my mind and in the mind of the planet that we've no honorable intentions in Vietnam, if we continue. It'll become obvious that being an American community and men won't avoid considering that so that we possibly may blast her nuclear installations our optimum wish would be to goad China right into a battle our minimum expectancy would be to inhabit it. Instantly the planet will soon be left without any other option than to see as some unbelievably awkward and dangerous game this if our war wasn't stopped by us from the folks of Vietnam we've chose to perform. The planet today requires a readiness of America that people may possibly not be in a position to accomplish. It requires that we acknowledge that we've been wrong from the beginning of our experience in Vietnam, that we've been harmful to the existence of the Vietnamese people. The problem is one by which we ought to prepare yourself to show sharply from our current methods. So as to atone for the sins and mistakes in Vietnam, the initiative should be taken by us in bringing a halt to the sad conflict. I'd prefer to suggest five tangible items that our government must do instantly to start the long and complicated procedure for extricating ourselves out of this nightmarish conflict: 1. Conclusion all bombing in South and North Vietnam. 2. State a cease-fire in the hope that such activity will generate the environment for settlement. 3. Simply take immediate measures to avoid other battlegrounds in Southeast Asia by limiting our military buildup in Thailand and our interference in Laos. 4. Reasonably acknowledge the truth that the National Liberation Front has considerable support in South Vietnam and should therefore may play a role in any important discussions and in any future Vietnam government. 5. Set a romantic date that people may eliminate all foreign troops from Vietnam prior to the 1954 Geneva settlement. . . . http://www.axisofjustice.org/audio/m...etnam-edit.mp3