Word: halberstam
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...Clock Follies. As it grapples with the fractional, fluctuating political story, the Saigon press corps has lost much of the camaraderie of the chummy days of 1963, when so much reporting was aimed at supporting the same anti-Diem line. "Today there is no Halberstam group," says a relieved Pentagon observer, referring to New York Timesman
...David Halberstam, who called the tune for the Diem baiters, and now reports from Paris. Today, Viet Nam reporters hardly get along with each other at all. None but the remotest news is pooled. "I've never worked anywhere in the world where I liked fewer newsmen," admits one old hand. Says a blunter and younger type: "I hate every other goddamned newspaperman in this place...
Even though Halberstam accepts Washington's view that the Vietcong are controlled from the North, he sees the war as nationalistic and anti-colonial and therefore our position doomed to failure. We are the heirs of the French he tells us. The more troops we pour in, the more we rely on eagle strikes which leaves the villages in the hands of the Vietcong, the worse it becomes...
...late for success, but if it isn't the price will be high and not payable with gimmicks. Any intelligent newspaper reader should know that by now. Halberstam does not provide us with any litmus test for determining what is the right price or whether it should be paid...
...description of the process of shaping American policy abroad, and the harsh price exacted from well meaning men who only see what they want to see. To formulate a foreign policy which will reach its goal, the landscape on the way must be closely observed. The caution Halberstam learned slogging through the jungles of Katanga is relevant to policy makers attempting to plot America's course abroad: "The relationship between African maps and African landscape is extremely haphazard...