Roger, You posted this:

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............

And it occurs to me that the best response to it is to say that you cannot be both a truthful witness and also take a side, even if it is that of "the underdog"--