13-02-2017, 05:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-02-2017, 08:07 PM by Albert Doyle.)
Typical of today's media I think the Zacharia piece was designed to suggest there was a displacement of presidential power and powerful advisors in government bureaucracies were responsible for the miscalculation in Viet Nam. However, typical of CNN, it never quite gets to the accurate details of how JFK was right on top of this in advance and was assassinated by those powerful players exactly because of it. I guess what you are saying is Halberstam failed to cover the true existing situation that Taylor, Rostow, Rusk, and McNamara had established in Viet Nam that the war would be inconclusive. CNN is starting to hint at what really happened but leaves out the important details.
Look at the weaseling Washington Post trying to pose the New York Times as being a threat to Kennedy's Viet Nam war-mongering here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...f8160e69ba
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opini....html?_r=0
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Look at the weaseling Washington Post trying to pose the New York Times as being a threat to Kennedy's Viet Nam war-mongering here:
Quote:Famously, President John F. Kennedy asked the New York Times to withdraw David Halberstam from Saigon, where Halberstam and other independent-minded war correspondents were raising difficult questions about the quagmire. Ultimately, it was the people of all ages protesting in the streets of U.S. cities (counted more accurately by the media than by the government) and hard-driving journalists, not politicians, who brought about a shift in policy.The Post fails to mention it was helping the government cover-up the CIA's murder of Kennedy at the time:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...f8160e69ba
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opini....html?_r=0
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