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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 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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