Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Letters: Apr. 5, 1968
Blazes on the Trail
Sir: Senator Eugene McCarthy [March 22] has brought back the virtue Hope to the American political scene. Regrettably, the Senator's antiwar campaign is also based on hope, not reality. The Senator hopes that if we stop the bombing there will be peace—as if events had not cast even the slightest discredit upon such fatuous wishing. Until the Communists show an interest in a just peace that does not involve simple N.L.F. takeover, a bombing halt would be merely a quixotic exercise in futility.
JEFFREY LAURENTI, 71
Harvard College Cambridge, Mass.
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