Abstract

Editorials

The article comments on various political developments and issues related to the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in his role of self-righteous moralist, raised the issue of the indivisiblilty of right and wrong, in relation with Vietnam war, in his speech to the Tennessee legislature and it has been dutifully echoed in the editorial pages of newspapers. Even "The New York Times" criticized the peace demonstrations of April 15, 1967 which far exceeded in numbers and resolution all previous efforts in that field, on the ground that the demonstrators were pursuing a double standard, depicting "the United States as the epitome of evil and the Vietcong guerrillas and their North Vietnamese allies as the epitome of good." No responsible critic of U.S. policy in Southeast Asia takes any such position, but the preponderance of evil in this war is as clearly on the American side, as the preponderance of evil in World War II was on the Fascist side.