American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Appy Christian G

Author:Appy, Christian G. [Appy, Christian G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2015-02-04T22:00:00+00:00

This is not only a war we cannot win, it is a war we must lose if we are to survive morally. . . . We honor now those Southerners who stood by the Union when it was attacked by the Confederacy, just as we honor those Germans who rejected Hitler and his monstrous wars and were martyrs to the cause of freedom and humanity. Why do we find it so hard to accept this elementary lesson of history, that some wars are so deeply immoral that they must be lost, that the war in Vietnam is one of these wars, and that those who resist it are the truest patriots?

Commager’s moral imperative was realized—the war that must be lost was lost. But if our moral survival also depends on honoring the “truest patriots” who stood in opposition to the Vietnam War, then the United States remains in peril. We have not learned that lesson.

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