Pressure should be made in order to
stop the flow of weapons
into Vietnam, either by the United States
or by other countries,
whether it's capitalist or socialist,
but that can be done only when
there is already a commitment by
the United States to withdraw in a certain period of time
and the cessation of killing.
I'm not talking about
North Vietnam, South Vietnam. What about people who know nothing about
the people in Vietnam
whom I know: those people who are
dying everyday and suffering every day.
I am talking for their sake.
If you want to ask me what they want
the most, it is that you stop bombing, stop the killing,
and then if we are alive,
we'll pursue our struggle for other things like human dignity,
freedom, independence,
and so on, but if you think that we have to go on
fighting and dying, you are wrong.
I don't think only the American government
is responsible for the war. Most of you know that
the political-economic system there [in America]
has been [based on] things like the war in Vietnam
and that is why not doing anything about the system
and only demanding that the government do everything--that
is not enough. I'm afraid that even if you get a
new president, he may
do the same thing as the present one.
That is why
it is [essential] for the people to
examine their lives, themselves,
to know whether they are participating
in the strengthening of the present military-economic system in the United States.
This is a very crucial point.
If you continue to support that system, continue
to consume, continue to live that way,
then you cannot say that you are not responsible.
You are upholding the government in doing things in Vietnam.
