Maturity Requires A Final Accommodation

We Have The Power To Do Any Damn Fool Thing We Want To Do, And We Seem To Do It About Every Ten Minutes.

During A Single Week Of July 1967, 164 Americans Were Killed And 2100 Were Wounded In City Riots In The United States. We Are Truly Fighting A Two-front War And Doing Badly In Both. Each War Feeds On The Other And, Although The President Assures Us That We Have The Resources To Win Both Wars, In Fact We Are Not Winning Either.

There Has Been A Strong Tradition In This Country That It Is Not The Function Of The Military To Educate The Public On Political Issues.

Maturity Requires A Final Accommodation Between Our Aspirations And Our Limitations.

We Must Care To Think About The Unthinkable Things, Because When Things Become Unthinkable, Thinking Stops And Action Becomes Mindless.