Speech #930248711

I think we have two moral responsibilities. One is to see that the Paris peace treaty is actually implemented. and to exercise every kind of diplomatic means we possibly can to see that the treaty is implemented by the South as well as the North. and I am not satisfied that we have done everything within our diplomatic means to achieve that. Our second and more important moral responsibility is to the ravished people of South Vietnam. the hundreds of thousands. even millions. of refugees. the more than one million orphans in South Vietnam. the thousands of people. the majority under 14 years of age. who have lost arms and legs. We have a responsibility to those individuals. yes. But that is not what we have been talking about in the debate.