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''TO
KILL A
PEOPLE''
This is a searching generation.
We
search for a way to peace .
We
grope for solutions to massive domestic problems.
We
agonize
over crime, revolution, pornography, and outlaw
industries polluting our environment.
We
bicker among our–
selves about the meaning of our own constitution.
We
disagree
about almost everything.
We
want out of the war
in
Southeast
Asia, but we don' t want to see the whole world swatlowed up
by Communism.
We
want
an
end to stifling, poisoned air, but
not an end to our automobiles, and our industries .
We
want
an
end to huge defense spending, but don't want to lose our
jobs in defense industries.
We
want good results from evil
purposes.
We
want blessings for sin.
We
want life as we
heedlessly struggle to die.
by
Garner Ted Armstrong
K
OREA
confused us.
Vietnam is killing us.
We don't want to die, but we
don't understand why we live. lt's not
too late for America - not too late, yet,
for inspired leadership, darity of goals,
unanimity of purpose, dedication to
great cause, and collective sacrifice to
push the world's greatest single power
into broad avenues of peacc, into a
bright new tomorrow, into a utopian era
of the realization of man's fondest
dreams. It's not too late for America to
see the vastness of her sins, just as she
has recognized the vastness of her
wealth. It is not too late for a
.rpirit11al
SUMMARYOF PART 1, "TO KILL A PEOPLE"
(Article appeared in the February
PLAIN TRUTH.)
In Korea, all is as it was. After
thousands upon thousaods of meo,
womeo, and cbildren, dvilians and
soldiers died or wcre left maimed or
homeless, all is as it was.
The United States Lost in Korea.
From that time lO this, its people
have not known the tasle of vic·
tory. In Korea, Americans proved an
important poinl to the enemy. They
proved they were willing to fight,
and to spill the blood of their young
meo, in limited warfare for limiled
political objectives. They proved they
would, and could, fight for
time,
not
for victory.
With the spectte of Soviet nuclear
power always looming on the hori·
z.on, American leadership adopted
the policy of containment. While
the "conditioned response" and the
policy of containment was bewilder–
ing for the American military and
the public alike,
it
was either that or
Armageddon - all-out nuclear war.
Armageddon could never becoroe
the end result of nacional policy, and
so the American people found them-
selves forced
tO
stcer a frustrating
course between a peace whicb could
not be ac:hieved, and a war which
must not be fought. This bewildering
and confusing war of nerves was
helping to kili the American spirit.
lt
was weakening resolve- stifling
initiative and innovation-substitut·
ing stalemate for success, and vicis·
situde for victory.
Since World War JI, Americans
have not had a victory.
In the last issue, we showed the
changing mood of America; the drift
into revolutionary activities, guerrilla
warfare, violent protest, anarchistic
defiance of law, and the Jack of any
single, powerful GOAL tOward
which Americans press.
From the debacle in Korea
America could have learned many
valuable lessons. Certainly the cost
was dear enough lO underline the
Iessons Iearned. Yet, a protracted
struggle in Indochina has been
joined. It has dragged on for the
better part of a decade. Young boys
wbo fitst heard of Vietnam when
they chirped out their morning news
commenls
in
dass in the fifth grade
grew up to be drafted into the Army
and figbt, and perhaps die, in the
same war
they
heard of as children.
From Korea, Gary Powers and tbe
U-2, the Bay of Pigs, the Pueblo and
the Vietnam War, America has
gained only stultification, bewilder–
ment, frustration and shame.
Vietnam is a study in agonizing
parallels.
It
is as
if
no
significant
lessons were learned in Korea. It has
proved to be the most singularly con·
fusing dilemma lO ever be forced
upon a free and peace-loving nation.
To kili a people, you must fitst
break their pride; destroy theit spitit;
make them totally seli-centered,
searching only for selfish, personal
goals. Make them greedy, glutted
with too much, and depraved with
the lusts of materialistic pleasures.
Have them divided against them·
selves, io searcb of escape.
Thal way, they'Jl ultimately kili
themsel11es.