Much wiser seems the view of Senator Eugene McCarthy, who said long afterward, “The moral issue as I saw it finally got down to the question of was there any proportion between the destruction and what possible good would come out of it? . . . You started with the judgment . . . about people in South Vietnam wanting to have a free society. But the price of getting it was the destruction practically of a total community. You make a pragmatic judgment . . . you don’t pursue it to all-out destruction.”
