I know what I am saying may cause great offence, yet non is meant, but the country was trashed for what exactly?

......Martha Gellhorn ...

........She was among the first to identify the Vietnam atrocity as "a new kind of war" against civilians. "Is this an honourable way," she wrote, "for a great nation to fight a war 8,000 miles from its safe homeland?" For this, the American press suppressed her articles and the US military saw to it that she was banned from south Vietnam. She was too dangerous. She was a truthful witness on the side of the underdog............

John Pilger