My own lack of enthusiasm for this treaty rests in the conviction that we seem to substitute talkand that is what a treaty is. talk reduced to writingfor the actions needed to halt the lawlessness and inhumanity that plague our time. Those who applaud this resolution may really believe they have struck a blow for humanityand if their concerns stop at this point. then this treaty becomes less than a fig leaf to conceal the naked lack of will to do anything effective to half genocide. "Give peace a chance" was the cry 10 years ago. as our last helicopters left the rooftop of our Embassy in Saigon. leaving in the distance the outstretched hands of those Vietnamese whose fatal error was to trust us. If we would only quit Indochina. the killing would end. we were told by some who still presume today to give us advice of equal insightbut the "murder of a gentle land" goes on as we speak. an ongoing act of genocide which has killed onethird of the population of Cambodia so far and produces millions of refugeesboat people. half of whom drown. all fleeing the Marxist paradise we left behind. We have become practiced at averting our gaze from this holocaust. as we move from resolution to treaty and back again. In a brilliant anilysis of this subject published in yesterdays Washington Times.
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