Fulbright, J. William
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August 9, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11267 us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either. Together the two wars have set in motion a process of deterioration in American society and there is no question that each of the two crises is heightened by the impact of the other. Not only does the Vietnam war divert human and material resources from our festering cities: not only does it foster the conviction on the part of slum Negroes that their country is indifferent to their plight. In addition the war feeds the idea of violence as a way of solving problems. If, as Mr. Rusk tells us, only the rain of bombs can bring Ho Chi Minh to reason, why should not the same principle apply at home? Why hould not riots and snipers' bullets bring the white man to an awareness of the Negro's plight when peaceful programs for housing and jobs and training have been more rhetoric than reality? Ugly and shocking thoughts are in the American air and they were forged in the Vietnam crucible. Black power extremists talk of "wars of liberation" in the urban ghettoes of America. A cartoon in a London newspaper showed two Negro soldiers in batle in Vietnam with one saying to the other: "This is going to be great training for civilian life." The effect of domestic violence on the chances for peace in Vietnam may turn out to be no less...
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August 8, 1967
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