MLK Would Not Oppose The Iraq And Afghanistan Wars?

Speaking at a Pentagon commemmoration of the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Defense Department general counsel Jeh C. Johnson told the audience that King would understand the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: "I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack." As you assess and react to that statement, consider Dr. King's April 1967 speech on Vietnam delivered at the Riverside Church in Manhattan.