Post-Cold-War Delusions.

This article describes the opinion in general in the intellectual community in the U.S. on the Vietnamese conflict. Not since the more than a decade in the history of the U.S. has the U.S. intellectual's attitude toward their government been so charged with distaste and fear as it is today. The Vietnamese war is without precedent in the way it has split university and official thinking. The beginnings of the rupture were apparent in the teaching movement last spring. The opposition believes that it is right in the sense of having a clearer and less provincial view of the contemporary world than the U.S. President and his advisers. It feels that it is both more responsible and more aware of the long-range interests of its own country and of humanity at large.