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...using conventional military force, the Defense Secretary now seems to have staked out the more temperate position. "Employing our forces almost indiscriminately and as a regular part of our diplomatic efforts," Weinberger declared, "would surely plunge us headlong into the sort of domestic turmoil we experienced during the Viet Nam War . . . The President will not allow our military forces to creep-or be drawn gradually-into a combat role in Central America or any other place in the world . . . Clearly, there are . . . situations where U.S. combat forces should not be used, [and] I have developed six major tests...
...combat troops are to be dispatched, "we should do so wholeheartedly, and with the clear intention of winning." By contrast, from the outset in Viet Nam, U.S. military strategy was strictly defensive...
...been compromised by the Legislative Branch to an extent that actively interferes," Weinberger declared, a position that Reagan and Secretary Shultz share. In essence, the eleven-year-old act limits the President's freedom to wage undeclared wars. For Congress that constraint is one of the lessons of Viet Nam. But critics point out that the time limit of the act might also cede an important advantage to military enemies: if it seems possible that Congress will not authorize combat past the first 60 days, the enemy has a built-in incentive to sit tight and wait for time...
...first day on the witness stand, General William C. Westmoreland described how he made frequent visits to his field commanders in Viet Nam to hear their briefings and get firsthand impressions. He used the word briefings as an old soldier would, perhaps not even aware of its connection to his $120 million libel suit against CBS. For briefings are also what journalism is about?gathering facts, asking questions and then briefing a public that hasn't the time or the patience to hear...
...choose unfairly to prove a thesis when it reduced hours of taped interviews to make a 90-min. Viet Nam documentary in which General Westmoreland came off looking bad? In a paneled and marbled federal courtroom in Manhattan, television screens are arrayed so that judge, jury, lawyers and spectators can see replays of what CBS chose and what it disregarded. This unusual behind-the-scenes look at the editing process disturbs the press?reporters think they should be judged by their printed stories, not by their notes; television producers by the footage they used, not by rejected outtakes. Back...