Why He Was Opposed To The War In Vietnam

Here is Martin Luther King, Jr's sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967:

http://youtu.be/FfGsVvnvA9w [23 1/2 minutes]

If you listen to him carefully, you will realize that as a nation we have learned and gained nothing of value since this sermon was delivered:

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:24 KJV