 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
In the summer of 1966, after extensive study and planning, I wrote to a number of people around the world, inviting them to join an International War Crimes Tribunal. The response heartened me, and soon I had received about eighteen acceptances. I was especially pleased to be joined by Jean=Paul Sartre, for despite our differences on philosophical questions I much admired his courage.
Source： The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3:1944-1969 ,chap4:The Foundation,(1969)
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The US has US military bases all over the world and has intervened in conflicts all over the world, but the Vietnam War marked a turning point. The US went deep into the Vietnam War and bombed North Vietnam extensively, but in the end, US forces were forced to withdraw from Vietnam.
One of the reasons for the US failure in the Vietnam War was that the then Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem was corrupt and did not have the support of the South Vietnamese people. Johnson, then Vice-President under the Kennedy administration, advised in his report on his tour of Vietnam that President Diem was ‘divergent from the people and, moreover, surrounded by even more undesirable characters than Diem himself’ (Wikipedia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
Another factor was the growing anti-war movement among young people in the United States.
Bombers took off daily from the US military base in Okinawa to bomb the North. Japan's munitions industry was booming and brought wealth to Japan, but it was prosperity at the expense of the people of other countries, and the anti-Vietnam war movement in Japan was also fierce. The Japanese government's inability to criticise what the US government does and its willingness to follow and piggy-back on what the US does is ‘apparent’ (or ‘alive and well’).
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