“It does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or Senator to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Vietnam,” McGovern said in the Senate, “because it is not their blood that is being shed.”
Understanding the connection between religions and foreign relations requires the same sort of reflection and empirical investigation needed to understand other influences.
That he failed, and tens of millions of people went to their deaths in the last nine months of the war, was an unalloyed tragedy. But he had a positive effect on Germany.
