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Halberstam, who began covering combat in the Congo in the early 1960s before requesting a transfer to Saigon, became one of America’s prominent voices on the topic of Vietnam through his books “The Making of the Quagmire?? and “The Best and the Brightest,” which both described the American involvement in Vietnam and criticized American policy...
Halberstam at this time began to write his first books— “The Making of a Quagmire?? about Vietnam and “The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy” about fractious domestic politics—often waking up early in the morning to write before he had to go to work...
...level scrutiny has redefined what was once only a military affair. By focusing on setbacks, this model makes any situation look like a “quagmire??—the word of the day for President Bush’s detractors. Coverage of the way hundreds of thousands were fed and medicated in Somalia in 1992, for example, could not counterbalance the deaths of 18 servicemen and women, particularly not in a mission that seemed trivial for America’s national interest. Fear of another Somalia kept President Clinton at bay while France and Britain fumbled...
...this way, violence-oriented newscasts have so bowled over a nation that 300 American deaths in Iraq looks like a calamity—or quagmire??worthy of bringing down a presidential administration...
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