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 help 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?
Answer
A
He is a United States soldier who embraces the opportunity to fight and defeat communist forces in Vietnam.
B
He is a United States soldier who is attempting to deceive the Vietnamese customs officials.
C
He is a journalist who believes in the United States government’s intentions in Vietnam.
D
He is a journalist who believes the United States government should offer greater aid to countries suffering from tyranny.