As far as I can see Turse’s book has inspired very little public debate.
In general, the right seems committed to some mixture of denying the
atrocities in Vietnam, claiming that everyone did it or the misdeeds
were somehow justified by what the North Vietnamese did, and blaming the
hippies. Latterday liberals acknowledge that bad things happened, but
mostly don’t want to open up the can of worms, for fear that they’d be
accused of being unpatriotic and hating the troops or something. The
result is a strange form of historical forgetting, where there’s a
general sense that bad things happened, but no understanding of how
general these bad things were, nor desire to hold people accountable for
them.
- Henry Farrell on Nick Turse’s newbook on the US-Vietnam war, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
- Henry Farrell on Nick Turse’s newbook on the US-Vietnam war, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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