THE GULF WAR: The International Front : Words on the War
“George Bush has suggested that our great moral failing in Vietnam was to send our troops into battle without adequate means to protect themselves. The point of this revisionism is to convey the picture that there are now really only two choices: (1) send our troops into battle well-prepared; and (2) send our troops into battle ill-prepared.
“But there is a third way: Don’t send our troops into battle at all. This calls for an immediate cease-fire and resumption of diplomatic and economic means of resolving the crisis. This path denies support to our troops only if it is in their interest to fight, and no one has been . . . cynical enough to claim that.”
-- ALEXANDER GEORGE, professor of philosophy, Amherst College
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