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Some way out: January 2010
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Monday, January 25, 2010. The Village of Ben Suc - comment. I kept thinking, 'what is driving this thing? Someone powerful somewhere was working the problem, working it and reworking it. This whole episode, though it destroyed the lives of thousands of people, was just another attempt, a serious one, to solve the problem. What was the problem? Strategic Hamlets, Resettlement, Nation Building, Free-fire zones, Napalm, Helicopter Gunships, B52 Drops, Hogjaw Bulldozers, Compensation. There is no 'we.' M...
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Some way out: July 2010
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Monday, July 19, 2010. Another Dissection - Home Bigart. The article I'm looking at is 'Vietnam Victory Remote Despite U.S. Aid to Diem,' by Homer Bigart, first published July 25, 1961, in The New York Times. Not just any reporter, not just any newspaper. Who was Homer Bigart? I didn't know until I looked him up and found a 1991 eulogy in the American Journalism Review:. Homer Bigart was the reporter on the spot for the New York Times. Is that a big deal? He starts like this:. By the end of the this year...
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Some way out: Viet Nam - Timelines
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Viet Nam - Timelines. I need to align differing narratives of the events in the early part of the war. I'm going to make some uniform timelines of the different readings. Hopefully I can line up the timelines and see how different parties report the same events. I'm starting with Burchett. His writing is full of detailed accounts by participants and those near to the action: rural Vietnamese, tribal people, NLF cadre and officials. Cause and effect of violence in Viet Nam. I am us...
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Some way out: Viet Nam - Humanizing role of US Military personnel
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Viet Nam - Humanizing role of US Military personnel. A common theme in American war reporting is that the US presence serves to civilize a struggle, make it more humane. Here are excerpts from three independent sources regarding the use of napalm in civilian areas. See if you can spot the differences. The targeting rocket] made a loud explosive honk. Here are two anecdotes by source 3 regarding directing artillery fire against villages. They radioed back that the province chief ...
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Some way out: Vietnam. Inside story. What happened at Buon Ea Nao?
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Sunday, June 13, 2010. Vietnam. Inside story. What happened at Buon Ea Nao? Here are two accounts of a US Special Forces operation inside Viet Nam. One is from Vietnam Studies. U.S. Army Special Forces 1961-1971. A book published by the US Dept of the Army in 1973; the other is by Burchett's book, published in 1963. The operation was at a village called Buon Ea Nao. In Burchett, but Buon Enao. As a catch-all for a diverse group of indigenous peoples. THE NEW PROGRAM AT BUON EA NAO. Note: Below, 'Diem' an...
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Some way out: Geography
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Saigon (now, Ho Chi Minh). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Provinces of Viet Nam. What is going on? Over two decades I collected books about America's war against Viet Nam, mostly published between 1967-1975. I've decided to go through them and learn what I can about the war, about America, about the world, and about intellectual self-defense. I am using these internets to organize my thinking. If you wander here, please feel free to comment. Another Dissection - Home Bigart. This is a test.
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Some way out: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Viet Nam - Timelines. I need to align differing narratives of the events in the early part of the war. I'm going to make some uniform timelines of the different readings. Hopefully I can line up the timelines and see how different parties report the same events. I'm starting with Burchett. His writing is full of detailed accounts by participants and those near to the action: rural Vietnamese, tribal people, NLF cadre and officials. Cause and effect of violence in Viet Nam. 8230; [...
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Some way out: 'Fumbling'- a slice of reportage by Stanley Karnow, 1961
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Fumbling'- a slice of reportage by Stanley Karnow, 1961. Historical note: the 'Diem régime' refers to the US backed government of what became known as South Vietnam. He was in power from 1954 until 1963, when he was killed in a military coup.). How can a reporter do this:. Does this win some award for density of rhetorical contortions? Hostile neutrality, t. O some extent the army has been at fault,. Like most Oriental armies,. Its share of raping, pillaging, torturing. Next, for ...
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Some way out: February 2010
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Viet Nam. The Unheard Voices. - Untenable position. The accelerating tempo of the war and the increasing hostility of many Vietnamese people toward Americans began to affect the work of IVS seriously after mid-1965. In the early years … Americans at home, or even in Saigon, were often amazed at the extent to which volunteers could carry on work even when newspaper headlines were dwelling on the battle that seemed to rage everywhere.… (p11). It was an accumulation of all these ...
