Christian Appy

Christian Appy is the author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides and American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (Viking, 2015).

Op-Ed

Our “Merciful” Ending to the “Good War”: Or, How Patriotism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Seventy years later, and we seem farther than ever from a rejection of the idea that launching atomic warfare on Japanese civilian populations was an act of mercy.

By: Christian Appy ,; TomDispatch

August 4, 2015

Op-Ed

Forty Years Later, Will the End Games in Iraq and Afghanistan Follow the Vietnam Playbook?

Toss out the historical background and you can recast any U.S. mission as a flawed but honorable, if not noble, effort by good-guy rescuers to save innocents from the …

By: Christian Appy ,; TomDispatch

April 27, 2015

Op-Ed

Burying Vietnam, Launching Perpetual War: How Thanking the Veteran Meant Ignoring What Happened

The fashioning of a bogus US tragedy from a real Vietnamese one has paved the way for so many more such tragedies.

By: Christian Appy ,; TomDispatch

February 9, 2015

Interview

The Widening Lens: Jonathan Schell and the Fate of the Earth

Tom Engelhardt gives tribute to the late Jonathan Schell, along with an illuminating interview in which Schell speaks of the Vietnam War.

By: Christian Appy &; Tom Engelhardt ,; TomDispatch

March 31, 2014

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