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ONWARD AND UPWARD AND ONWARD AND—
Using the Johnson administration’s justifications for its bombing campaign in Vietnam as a metaphor for escalation, Herblock portrays a U.S. citizen gingerly climbing warheads. Americans criticized President Johnson for his policies, arguing that bombing alienated the non-Communists of Vietnam and destroyed attempts at nation-building in South Vietnam. By the end of 1967, Block complained that “We had dropped more tons of bombs on North and South Vietnam than we had on all of Europe in World War II.”
Onward and Upward and Onward and—, 1967. Published in the Washington Post, April 23, 1967. |