In "Beyond Vietnam" by Martin Luther King Jr, he argues that (what does he argue in he's speech?)

In Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Martin Luther King Jr argued that the only purpose of that war was to the U. S. make a colony out of Vietnam. He was opposed to that war for a very long time, but did not act since 1967. He also stated that the U. S. was one of the states with the most violent goals and acts. Reasons for opposing were that it was not moral, it caused economic injustice and the money used for war could have been used for social welfare in America. He also stated that Congress gradually was spending more and more money on army and soldiers than on poor people which according to him led to spiritual death. Also there was the fact that American army killed a lot of Vietnamese people, mostly children and that North Vietnam would not have armed itself if it was not for the pressure by American side of going into the war. Martin Luther King Jr got a lot of enemies by giving this speech, while some of them were not enemies before it. That eventually led to his assassination the next year.