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Read this excerpt from "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk."


When I first walked across the tarmac of Saigon’s Tansonnhut Airport on a warm evening in April, 1962, nervous that the customs officers might not accept the journalist’s visa I had hurriedly obtained from the South Vietnamese consulate in Hong Kong, I believed in what my country was doing in Vietnam. With military and economic aid and a few thousand pilots and Army advisers, the United States was attempting to help the non-Communist Vietnamese build a viable and independent nation-state and defeat a Communist guerilla insurgency that would subject them to a dour tyranny.


What is the author’s connection to the social and political issues of his day?

He is a United States soldier who embraces the opportunity to fight and defeat communist forces in Vietnam.

He is a United States soldier who is attempting to deceive the Vietnamese customs officials.

He is a journalist who believes in the United States government’s intentions in Vietnam.

He is a journalist who believes the United States government should offer greater aid to countries suffering from tyranny.

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Answer:

He is a journalist who believes in the United States government's intentions in Vietnam.

Step-by-step explanation:

Read from the seventh line and onward.

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Answer:

He is a journalist who believes in the United States government’s intentions in Vietnam.

Step-by-step explanation:

Neil Sheehan came back to the United States after covering the war in Vietnam. In this excerpt he makes it clear he is a journalist when he says: "....the journalist’s visa I had hurriedly obtained ..". Then, he defends the US policies in Vietnam. He backs these policies - mainly related to economic amd military issues- for he thinks that they will prevent the Communist Pary from taking over in Vietnam.

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