Michael T. Malloy and Wesley Pruden. Jr.. recently expressed their own dismay at the negative response of so many Americans to the suffering of the Vietnamese refugees. Mr. Malloy noted that it is really too late for a plea for elementary decency: It became too late for that. of course. when the last Americans scrambled on the getaway helicopters in Saigon while Congress still haggled over whether to help anyone at all. So now this essay is only a plea that we accept the victims of our policies with something better than the mean and selfish spirit they have inspired so far. The refugees have lost their homes and country because they supported the United States.... Too many Americans have responded with selfish hysteria over the impact their tiny numbers might make on our 80 million Job economy .... There seems to be a powerful and unworthy desire here to blame our victims for our failures.
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