Hanoi’s Special Weapons System
This country’s most prominent spokesmen, doves as well as hawks, have been threatening Ho Chi Minh with dire reprisals if he executes the captured American pilots as war criminals. Our spokesmen are, I’m afraid, missing the point. They see Ho’s treatment of the pilots as an act of revenge motivated by frustrated fury at the recently escalated bombings, which he is militarily powerless to check. Veteran Communists, however, do not succumb to what they regard as “subjective” motives, and are not concerned with individual lives.
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