1. Moral issues -- 2. Sources of confusion -- 3. Americans in Vietnam -- 4. Civic action; orphanages, adoptions, "operation harelip" -- 5. History revisited -- 6. The Geneva conference -- 7. Moral and legal objections to the war: the issues -- 8. SEATO, the United Nations, and commitments -- 9. The election issue and the question of civil war -- 10. Some moral complexities: communist expansion, the enclave theory -- 11. What do we want of South Vietnam? -- 12. Alienation of moral affection -- 13. Truth or consequences.