True, there were openly leftist pseudo-journalists such as Wilfred Burchett, John Pilger, etc., yet a great deal of damage was done by the non-aligned (officially at least) pseudo-reporters who, in the final analysis, were profoundly ignorant, supremely egotistical, and utterly unable to discern Viet Nam's realities. They knew nothing of three-phase protracted warfare, nothing of Viet Nam's true history, nothing of anything of substance about Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Sometimes described as "liberal" these people were in fact dogmatic and allowed no deviation from the revealed truth. They were pathetic incompetents. They, as well as the Burchetts and Pilgers of the world, need to be called to account for their dismal failure in explaining Viet Nam, and in predicting what would occur should communism triumph. They did neither.