The_Plight_Of_Communism

The Plight Of Communism The Plight of Communism The U.S. should have stayed out of the affairs of the Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. Just because one country takes the communist route does not mean the rest of the world will follow. If Communism really does not work then I think Vietnam would have eventually seen this and therefore ultimately change to a democratic form of government on their own, just as the United States did in the 18th century. Martin Luther King was “the preeminent leader of the civil rights movement” (Bizell 850) in the 1960’s. While America was at war with Vietnam he gave his “Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam” speech at the Riverside Church. King’s views on communism were outlined in this oration. He was of the live and let live attitude. King thought that a country should govern themselves the way they want to, not the way another country tells it to. He expressed concern about the U.S.’s role in Vietnam for this reason. King writes, “what must they think of us in America when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in communism, war, vietnam, america, dodd, king, communist, way, vietnamese, think, should, government, communists, very, people, order, king’s, just, however, capitalism, against, about, writes, world, thought, thinking, speech, same, really, luther, know, eventually, end, change, both