Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam”: The Madness of US Militarism. “On the Side of the Wealthy, Creating a Hell for the Poor” | Global Research
By Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr. Gary G. Kohls
They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945 — after a combined French and Japanese occupation and before the communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its re-conquest of her former colony.
