“If we continue to excuse American conduct in Vietnam as a well-intentioned, if tragic, intervention rather than a purposeful assertion of imperial power, we are less likely to challenge current war managers who have again mired us in apparently endless wars based on false or deeply misleading pretexts.”
Professor Chris Appy recently published “What Was the Vietnam War About?” in the New York Times. In this article, he examines the debate over how to define the American War in Vietnam and its relevance to current U.S. foreign policy. Find the article here.
