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...WEEKS ago, I interviewed a young American scientist just back from a lecture tour of Indochina. The conversation got around to the role of American journalists in the Vietnam war, and one name came to his mind immediately. "Robert Shaplen," he said, "is the greatest apologist for American aggression alive today...
...journalist has made his name in Souhteast Asia, Robert Shaplen has. His reporting has been the clearest, the most insightful, the most informative to come out of Saigon over the past decade. Yet, while he has continually discovered corruption, inhumanity, and brutality everywhere, he has been strangely reticent to criticize the war itself. Indeed, he has been the foremost representative of the "victory is just around the corner" school of journalism...
TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, by Robert Shaplen. Using flashbacks into history and probes into the future, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia views present dangers there with well-measured judgment...
TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, by Robert Shaplen. Using flashbacks into history and probes into the future, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia views present dangers there with well-measured judgment...
...urge to do so is great, and will grow greater still. Such a policy is encouraged by fatigue and political recrimination at home after a war half lost. While urging that America's future role in Southeast Asia be reduced, Shaplen suggests that it will nonetheless be necessary. "If we become too preoccupied with our mea culpas, as we have shown an alarming tendency to do," he concludes, "we will do further injury to ourselves and probably to others...