What is Wrong with "Victory to the NLF"?

Firstly, "Victory to the NLF" is not a demand. It is merely an expression of sympathy for the liberation forces in Vietnam.

Secondly, to have "Victory to the NLF" as a central demand cuts out all those who do not necessarily give explicit support to any group in Indochina, but who will march for a total US and NZ withdrawal. Most New Zealanders support the principle of self-determination of nations - that the Indochinese people alone should determine their own affairs. Even Nixon and Marshall are forced to give lip-service to this principle. However the NLF" cuts right across the central focus of "For self-determination" US get out now!" and allows the government and news media to get away with attacks on the antiwar movement for being just a pro-Communist movement. The antiwar movement involves far more than the pro-Communists in New Zealand; in fact the conscious radicals are only a tiny fraction of the antiwar movement.

"Victory to the NLF" has the effect of reducing the antiwar movement down to only those who support the NLF. In fact it reduces the power of the antiwar movement, and is the sort of thing that enables Nixon and the like to get away with talk about the "silent Majority" being pro-war.