We are engaged in a war that seeks to turn the clock of history back and perpetuate white colonialism.” America’s forces were “committing atrocities equal to any perpetrated by the Vietcong,” and Johnson’s policies exposed both “our paranoid anti-Communism” and “the deadly western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long.” America was now “isolated in our false values in a world demanding social and economic justice. We must undergo a vigorous reordering of our national priorities,”
