With each and every action that the United States takes the president's office provides a hint that there is more to come if the people do not comply. In addition the United States has gone into Iraq and forced democracy on it without so much as a question beforehand if this was something the people there wanted. This memo implies the same attitude with regard to the "saving" of the Vietnam people. The Southern residents are to be convinced that the North is mistreating them and will not stop until the U.S. makes them stop just as the current administration has decided to convince the people of Iraq that they were being ravaged and it would not stop without U.S. involvement.

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In this article King expresses the irony of Black men being sent to fight a war and defend a nation in which they are mistreated.
It is interesting to note that the very same treatment the Blacks at the time received form the Whites in this country can be likened to the above memo in which the writer expresses the ideas that it is okay to become violent in an outrage of the way the North Vietnamese treated the South Vietnamese.

The sons and daughters of the poor Blacks of Harlem are sent to fight a war for a nation that turns it back on them with regularity and King marvels at the irony of such actions.