Vietnam: Sorrow and Pity

It is finally over. The outcome had not really been in doubt for some years, and only a massive intervention by the U.S., if even that, could have changed it. Elementary humaneness therefore yields a kind of relief. Whatever sufferings may still await the Vietnamese people, we are grateful that organized warfare has come to an end.

The American role was as squalid in the last days as it had been throughout the whole intervention. Marines clubbing the fingers of South Vietnamese trying....