The USA is still the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today

'But, they asked, what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government.'

Martin Luther King in 1967.

'That the Black Power movement comes right on top of the Six-Day War is another cruelty of this period. Stanley Levison, Dr. King’s closest adviser, said just a few days after the Six-Day War, We’re in a real pickle here because the architects of nonviolence theory, of the enlightenment of ethical culture, have always been Jewish, and the Jews are turning into hawks because of the Six-Day War. You know–Israel beat five Arab armies in six days, and muscular Judaism was born. And he said this is going to be a big crisis ’cause we’re going to lose a lot of brainpower for nonviolence.'

Historian Taylor Branch in the January 26, 2009 issue of The Nation. Levison was a Jewish Communist and one of King's two speechwriters.

The Vietnam war was a foolish adventure, though you can say that of most wars that are lost.

Unlike the US invasion of Iraq, its toppling of the Libyan government and Hillary Clinton's intention to topple the Syrian government, the Vietnam war was legal and just. The North Vietnamese regime was much more horrible than Saddam's, Assad's, Gaddafi's, Milosevic's or the Iranian government today. 

But Vietnam was none of America's business.

Nor is Iran, whose government seems to have a lot of support to judge by the million people who came out in a demonstration days ago.