This kind of world will never be built by bombs or bullets. He sought to answer Vietnam critics with unconditional discussions and a billiondollar electrification project for Southeast Asia, but he also reaffirmed his determination not to withdraw. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind. The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. Thus, over many years, we have made a national pledge to help South Viet-Nam defend its independence. The 10-month battle resulted in 800,000 casualties and only strengthened each sides resolve. It is a very old dream. We hope that peace will come swiftly. But anti-war rallies from groups as disparate as the Womens Christian Temperance Union (who argued against children using war toys) and the United Mine Workers (who produced most the coal that powered factories and urban homes) added to Wilsons ambivalence over sending American troops abroad. Speech Asking the Senate to Ratify the North Atlan Chapter 23: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, Chapter 24: Containment and the Truman Doctrine, Telegram Regarding American Postwar Behavior. A Brief History of Steamboat Racing in the U.S. Texas-Born Italian Noble Evicted From Her 16th-Century Villa. And we will do only what is absolutely necessary. We fight because we must fight if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny. Most of them do not want their sons to ever die in battle, or to see their homes, or the homes of others, destroyedthe simple truths are there just the same. America made a promise, and it is a promise that Johnson intends to keep. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Viet-Nam who have bravely borne this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. We will explore the fundamental art of rhetoric throughout the ages as it has effectively communicated sentiments of personal belief and political persuasion. These countries of southeast Asia are homes for millions of impoverished people. The iconic speech revealed the possibilities and the inherent problems with Wilsonian idealism. And I would hope tonight that the Secretary General of the United Nations could use the prestige of his great office, and his deep knowledge of Asia, to initiate, as soon as possible, with the countries of that area, a plan for cooperation in increased development. We can do all these things on a scale never dreamed of before. I wish it were possible to convince others with words of what we now find it necessary to say with guns and planes: Armed hostility is futile. It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of VietnamWhy must we take this painful road? But that is in the hands of others besides ourselves. So I will very shortly name a special team of outstanding, patriotic, distinguished Americans to inaugurate our participation in these programs. = ? But I do not find it impressive at all. We can do all these things on a scale never dreamed of before. Stability and peace do not come easily in such a land. This support is the heartbeat of the warfarmers are the targets of assassination and kidnapping. Have we, each of us, all done all we could? What is LBJs goal for the world?