“But what is it that today’s Urban centered US Community Organizers are really attempting to change?”
Bring about Cratered Urban Centers in Chicago’s case, like too many others. More people being shot this summer in Chicago than troops lost in Iraq.
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Benj brings up Halberstam, which brings up Diem:

“Mark Moyar, an associate professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University and author of two histories of Vietnam,[15] claimed in a National Review opinion piece that Halberstam, along with fellow Vietnam journalists Neil Sheehan and Stanley Karnow, helped to bring about the 1963 coup of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem by sending negative information on Diem to the U.S. government, in news articles and in private, because they decided Diem was unhelpful in the war effort.

Moyar claims that much of this information was false or misleading.[16] Historian Jeremy Kuzmarov disagrees, writing that Moyar’s analysis underplays the fact that Diem was a corrupt, brutal and unpopular dictator, who tortured and executed opponents without trial. Kuzmarov says that while Moyar raises some valid criticisms about the methodologies of Halberstam and Sheehan, responsibility for the coup ultimately lies with Washington policymakers.[17]“