 Columnist Joseph Kraft, who was also touring North Vietnam, said he believed the damage to the dikes was incidental and was being used as propaganda by Hanoi, and that, if the U.S. Air Force were "truly going after the dikes, it would do so in a methodical, not a harum-scarum way".Sweden's ambassador to Vietnam, however, observed the bomb damage to the dikes and described it as "methodic".Other journalists reported that the attacks were "aimed at the whole system of dikes".