Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process by which President Carter hopes to get Israelis and Arabs together at a Geneva peace conference, presumably this year. At his press conference last week, Carter deplored the heavy loss of life, but he declined to single out Israel for striking what had obviously turned out to be civilian targets. "The overriding consideration," the President said, "is not to condemn Israel at this point for retaliation, but just to say that if the provocations were absent then the retaliation would have been unnecessary...
After the bombing raids, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, Israel's chief of staff, insisted that his pilots had struck the targets assigned them. Said he: "We know for sure that the bombing was accurate and the results were good. We did not attack any civilian areas or refugee camps...
...could describe the soldiers' lives in detail, describe the kind of tension and privation that brutalized them. And he could show how the higher command failed miserably to provide adequate support for their troops, because the officers believed their own lies about kill ratios, retreats, urbanization, and a friendly civilian population. At Khe San, for instance, the "grunts" knew they were being placed in a death trap that the generals refused to acknowledge. And, like Herr, the "grunts" realized the insanity of the war, and could only deal with it by developing a sick humor. Herr reports their conversations, tucked...
...that for correspondents, war is not hell. It is fun." Reporters arrived in Vietnam expecting--as they had been taught to expect from the war movies they grew up on--adventure, glamor, and excitement. What they found instead was a brutal war, a war that drew no lines between civilian and enemy, a war that denied compassion both for Vietnamese and American soldiers...
...First Casualty, Phillip Knightly suggests an important reason for the slowness with which reporters began to question U.S. tactics: most of the correspondents who went to Indochina had never covered a war before, and had no basis on which to conclude that the U.S. forces' brutality toward the civilian population was not common to all wars. They saw the racism toward the Vietnamese, the army's official refusal to acknowledge the damage the army was inflicting on a civilization. But it took correspondents a while to understand the size of the gap between official doublespeak and reality...