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(More customer reviews)During the brief moments when Norman Thomas is not pontificating whimsical platitudes Buckley elucidates the utter puerility involved in the argumentation of Thomas. For some reason Thomas has beguiled himself into believing that voting for totalitarianism is somehow equivalent to self-determinism (even though such a premise is antithetical to itself). Of course by the end Thomas was just as befuddled as in the beginning having grasped very little of what Buckley had said.
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Taped on April 8, 1966 Mr. Thomas--the grand old man of the American Left, six-time Socialist Party candidate for President--was by this point focusing all his energies on opposition to America's involvement in the Vietnam War. This often fierce exchange, which places both men on the firing line, begins with Buckley's asking why his guest supported the Korean War but opposes the Vietnam War and goes on to explore whether it is realistic even to aspire to "contain" Communism. Thomas: "Mr. Buckley, you seem to believe in cruelty as a necessary adjunct to this kind of war. Your main point is that somehow we're going to contain Communism this way, and we aren't. We may delay certain events in Communism. We're not going to contain it. We--"" Buckely: "Excuse me, was the war in Greece cruel? Did we contain the Communists in Greece?" Summary by Firing Line Staff
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