The appearance of the Pentagon Papers washes away any attempt to explain our involvement on the basis of rational and open deliberations. The continuation and extension of the air war at the same time that our rhetoric heralds the return of combat troops is simply a further continuation of the process and principles that ensnared us in the jungles of Vietnam those many years ago. The Senate. in a closed session last June. discovered that the air war in Laos was leading this country into a new bed of quicksand while our pronouncements were claiming steady withdrawal from Vietnam. 300.000 Laotians have been turned into refugees by our air war over their homeland. Already our Nation has released more than three times the tonnage of World War II bombing in the air of Indochina. To continue such activity under the cover of pronouncements of disengagement will simply lead to further shattering of the bonds that have so delicately held this country together.
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