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...this should be done," she wrote in her frankly biased account, Vietnam, "ought not to be the concern of those who oppose our presence there." A far different approach was adopted by Novelist John Updike, in a letter to the New York Times last week. "Anyone not a rigorous pacifist," he wrote, "must at least consider the argument that this war, evil as it is, is the lesser of available evils, intended to forestall worse wars...
Intellectuals cannot have it both ways, says Anthony Hartley, editor in chief of Interplay, a new magazine on international affairs. "If they applaud the Israeli victory over the Arabs, they cannot then use pacifist arguments to condemn American policy in Viet...
...that the controversy surrounding it has died down, The War Game can be judged on its own merits as one of the growing number of pacifist films. And it ranks with the best of them. Like Resnais' Night and Fog it uses documentary-like, rough-grained footage as well as rapid cutting between past, present and future. We see a real statement from a church council supporting nuclear war. Then a close-up of the terrified face of a nurse saying, Their bodies are just falling apart. A young couple carrying their son, who has been blinded by the glare...
...Game also fulfills one of the criteria which Paul Goodman lists for pacifist movies: "probably the chief factor of war spirit that must be analyzed is not the military character nor the projection of the enemy, but the paralysis with which the vast majority of people of all countries accept the war..." The film is most effective when it contrasts the woman on the street saying "Yes, we'd have to retaliate if they attacked first" with the terrified, and terrifying blank faces of the children who "survived" the retaliation...
...Confession does not identify the United Presbyterian Church as a pacifist group...