addicted veterans was badly maimed from the wars, and while "the new york times," correspondent james rester wrote the drug crisis was a tragic consequence of the war where khruschev's phrase the living may envy the dead and these comment epitomize the tone of outrage characterizing the media's response to the drug crisis in stark contrast to the violence spread by the war itself, where there was little more ex-xhortations and showed vietnam as a war tainted and marred by drugs with devastating social effects, while cementing anti-drug more rays in the u.s. and, many articles warned sensationalistic fashion, so-called drug epidemic in vietnam, was spreading back to the u.s., and, in february of 1971, alsop, and he was a very influential commentator of the period and his brother joseph was on the payroll of the cia and influential journalist and wrote a column in which he warned new york city was infested with drugs and killed by herrin because of the return of soldiers and new york city may be terminal and shows the demonization an rhetoric which i argue fueled support for the war on drugs a