Explain the first reason that king gives for taking a stand on vietnam. is this a logical reason for his view that the war should be stopped? why or why not?

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was the leader of the civil rights movement and an American baptist, he spent his life fighting peacefully for civil rights, specially on those concerning African American people.

During his speech Beyond Vietnam, which he gave on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church King gives seven reasons for why he was interested in the Vietnam war.

The first reason King states is that few years back poor people in America had found hope through the poverty program that the government had designed, but when the war in Vietnam started the program was broken down. He stated that the government was investing more money and resources on Vietnam than on his own poor citizens that needed those economic resources.

The reason is logical because poor people were finally seeing some way out of their situation with the help of the government, and then they saw the resources went to another country.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)