Nixon and the prisoners of war, 7th January 1971, New York Review of Books, by Jon M. Van Dyke

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This is an article published in 1971, on January the 7th, in The New York Review of Books. Written by Jon M. Van Dyke, this article deals with the Nixon administration policies about the prisoners of war during the time of Vietnam War. According to Jon M. Van Dyke, the US government uses the prisoners of war problem to justify the war and "divert attention of [the American public opinion] from the fighting […] that are still continuing in Southeast Asia".
In order to show us how the US government manipulates the public opinion, Van Dyke insists on several points. So, in the first part, we will study how J M. Van Dyke sees the arguments used by the Nixon administration to change the mind of the American public opinion, and what he thinks about that.

Introduction
How J M. Van Dyke sees the arguments used by the Nixon administration to change the American public opinion
Maybe US is right to say that the North Vietnamese don't respect the convention of Geneva and that North Vietnam
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[...] So even when he uses real facts and not satire and irony, Van Dyke know how to show the strategy of the Nixon administration which consists in turning all the facts and the information to the US advantage. He adopts a serious point of view in order to give more power to his thesis which is that the government tries to turn the attention of the Americans from the real subject: the reasons of the war itself (if they exist). [...]

[...] Among the points not respected by the Vietnamese, Van dyke quotes the lack of correspondence "between the prisoners and their relatives", or the fact that no list of the prisoners had been published, etc. But, Van Dyke also underlines that Vietnamese made efforts to respect the Geneva Convention, and this was before that US troops attacked the Sontay prisoners-of-war camp, saying that as the time passed and not because of the menaces from the US government, North Vietnamese already showed their will to cooperate. [...]

[...] "Nixon and the prisoners of war", 7th January 1971, New York Review of Books, by Jon M. Van Dyke This is an article published in 1971, on January the 7th, in The New York Review of Books. Written by Jon M. Van Dyke, this article deals with the Nixon administration policies about the prisoners of war during the time of Vietnam War. According to Jon M. Van Dyke, the US government uses the prisoners of war problem to justify the war and "divert attention of [the American public opinion] from the fighting [ ] that are still continuing in Southeast Asia". [...]

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