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1、英语演讲稿开头pposition, supported their extortionist landlords, and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. the peasants watched as all this was presided over by united states' influence and then by increasing numbers of united states troops who came to help quell the insurgency that die
2、m's methods had aroused. when diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictators seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace.the only change came from america, as we increased our troop commitments in support of governme
3、nts which were singularly corrupt, inept, and without popular support. all the while the people read our leaflets and received the regular promises of peace and democracy and land reform. now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow vietnamese, the real enemy. they move sadly
4、and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. they know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs.so they go, primarily women and children and the aged. they watch as we poison their water, as we kill a millio
5、n acres of their crops. they must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. they wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from american firepower for one vietcong-inflicted injury. so far we may have killed a million of them, mostly chi
6、ldren. they wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. they see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. they see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers
7、.what do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform what do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of e
8、urope where are the roots of the independent vietnam we claim to be building is it among these voiceless oneswe have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. we have destroyed their land and their crops. we have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only
9、noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified buddhist church. we have supported the enemies of the peasants of saigon. we have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.now there is little left to build on, save bitterness. xsoon the only solid physical foundations remaining
10、 will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call &fortified hamlets.& the peasants may well wonder if we plan to build our new vietnam on such grounds as these. could we blame them for such thoughts we must speak for them and raise the questions they cannot
11、 raise. these, too, are our brothers.perhaps a more difficult but no less necessary task is to speak for those who have been designated as our enemies.x what of the national liberation front, that strangely anonymous group we call &vc& or &communists& what must they think of the united states of ame
12、rica when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of diem, which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the south what do they think of our condoning the violence which led to their own taking up of arms how can they believe in our integrity when now we speak of &
13、aggression from the north& as if there were nothing more essential to the war how can they trust us when now we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of diem and charge them with violence while we pour every new weapon of death into their land surely we must understand their feelings,
14、even if we do not condone their actions. surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence. surely we must see that our own computerized plans of destruction simply dwarf their greatest acts.how do they judge us when our officials know that their membership is less than twe
15、nty-five percent communist, and yet insist on giving them the blanket name what must they be thinking when they know that we are aware of their control of major sections of vietnam, and yet we appear ready to allow national elections in which this highly organized political parallel government will
16、not have a part they ask how we can speak of free elections when the saigon press is censored and controlled by the military junta. and they are surely right to wonder what kind of new government we plan to help form without them, the only party in real touch with the peasants. they question our political goals and they deny the reality of a peace settlement from which they will be excluded. their questions are frighteningly relevant. is our nation planning to build
