"Empty barrels make the most
noise." How true it is when one
observes the Moratorium people,
especially certain pseudo-progressive
faculty members, and of course
the really big "barrels" wheeled
into our community from the
outside. Thus, it was very heartening
to see the reasonable views
expressed in The Cavalier Daily by
Professors Claude and Battestin,
and also by President Shannon.
The trouble with this "Moratorium
carnival" is not the purpose,
but the people running it. They are
completely out of touch with the
feelings of the American people.
The Ordinary Joe wants an end to
the war not because of the
nonsensical reason that it is immoral,
but simply because it is a
NO-WIN war. It was made a
NO-WIN war by the very Washington
liberals who first sent American
boys into Vietnam and forbade
them to bring about a united
(North and South) non-communist
Vietnam. Every time a strong
regime shaped up in Saigon, there
was pressure to make it more
"democratic." The Vietnam morass
is the liberals' own creation.
If the Moratorium people are
really honest about this thing, let
them send a letter to Hanoi (not
only to Washington) demanding
(not begging) an end to the war.
You know, it is really high time
Ho's boys made at least one
concession. Who knows, maybe the
man in Hanoi who reads such a
letter will be sane, and the Moratorium
people will after all be
credited with stopping a war rather
than dividing a country.
R.I. Senkiw
Graduate A & S
