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...most "doves for war," as they were christened by L.B.J. Aide John P. Roche during the 1967 Six-Day War, have little difficulty justifying their seemingly inconsistent positions. To begin with, as Author David Halberstam points out, most antiwar activists objected to U.S. policy in Viet Nam not on outright pacifistic grounds but because they were convinced that Viet Nam was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." Moreover, the Israelis are hardly seeking the same order of U.S. aid as the South Vietnamese did. Says Idaho Senator Frank Church, a longtime opponent of U.S. involvement...
...recent years, Halberstam has been supplanted as the nation's premier investigative reporter by Seymour Hersh, who revealed in staccato succession the MyLai massacre, illegal air strikes against North Vietnam in 1971, and, most recently, the one and one-half year long secret bombing of Cambodia...
...fact, most of the good reporting of the past few years has been done by only a handful of people. Hordes of newsmen descended upon Vietnam in the early 1960s as American involvement deepened, but only one of them--David Halberstam, then with the New York Times--had the courage to report that a chasm lay between the truth and the Pentagon's reported story...
...David Halberstam, LL.D., author. Richard Widmark, D.F.A., actor...
...Best and the Brightest, Halberstam...