Hanoi Bombing
Sir,—“F.W.P.F.” attacks the evils of communism, but clearly believes in fighting evil with evil. In this he shares the shortsightedness of many ,in the West who have abandoned all vestiges of Sincere belief in Christian ethics. If civil liberties and prosperity had been built up in South Vietnam behind a strictly defensive military barrier, then it would have been relatively easy to pursuade infiltrators from the North to defect or surrender. That would have been a policy genuinely calculated to contain “communism.” Bombing of the North, especially insofar as it includes the use of anti-personnel “lazy dog” shrapnel bombs has, conversely, enraged and motivated the people of North Vietnam and other Communist countries. It threatens to turn war against communism into war against human beings who happen to be Communist If the West continues on its present amoral course, it will decline and eventually fall.—Yours, etc..
MARK D. SADLER. July 14, 1966. [This correspondence is now closed. Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 12
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