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Moderator Eric Sevareid started the hour-long debate by saying: "The cost and risk of fighting this war have to be measured against the risks and costs of not fighting it." As five TV cameras rolled, the Government's critics explained why they thought the risks were too grave and the costs too high...
Later, when Morgenthau began to cite foreign magazine articles (from France's L'Express and Britain's Economist) and figures on South Vietnamese desertion rates, Bundy, his voice edged with sarcasm, cut him short. "I'll simply have to break in, if I may, Mr. Sevareid, and say that I think Professor Morgenthau is wrong on his facts as to the desertion rates, wrong in his summary of the Express articles, wrong in his view of what the Economist says, and, I'm sorry to say, giving vent to his congenital pessimism." As an example...
Apocalyptic Predictions. What alternatives, Sevareid asked, does the U.S. have to its present policy? Brzezinski noted that one alternative is to cross the 17th parallel, but immediately rejected it. "We're not trying to overthrow the North Vietnamese government," he said. "There is no effort here to roll back the Communist world." What the U.S. must do, he added, is "to make it very clear that we ourselves are not going to be thrown out of South Viet Nam. And I believe we can do this in spite of the apocalyptic predictions by some people that this will lead...
...rules of international conduct?" asked Kuralt. Johnson's decision, answered Reporter Bert Quint, brought back "the whole specter of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much more outworn specter than the very present one of Communism in this hemisphere. I don't see frankly how any President...
Agony of Power. But didn't contradictory policies "damage" the U.S. in Latin America, pleaded Kuralt. Of course they did, said Sevareid. But "I would only suggest that crises are not laid out in advance, and you're not given a form book to go by. I don't think it's possible to throw in a great force in a tiny place and handle it with exactitude, with regard to all the niceties. It is part of what's called the agony of being a great power with great responsibility...