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 …