doesn’t go away. “Turse lays open the ground-level reality of a war that
was far more atrocious than Americans at home have ever been allowed to know.
He exposes official policies that encouraged ordinary American soldiers and
airmen to inflict almost unimaginable horror and suffering on ordinary
Vietnamese, followed by official cover-up….Kill Anything That Moves is obligatory reading for Americans, because
its implications for the likely scale of atrocities and civilian casualties
inflicted and covered up in our latest wars are inescapable and staggering. —
Daniel Ellsberg
“Nick Turse reminds us again, in this painful and important
book, why war should always be a last
resort. We failed, as Turse makes clear, to deal after the Vietnam War with the
murders that took place, and today, four decades later, lessons have yet to be learned. We still prefer kicking down doors to talking.”
-- Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
This deeply disturbing
book provides the fullest documentation yet of the brutality and ugliness that
marked America’s war in Vietnam. No doubt some will charge Nick Turse with
exaggeration or overstatement. Yet the evidence he has assembled is
irrefutable. — Andrew J.
Bacevich, Col, U.S.Army (Ret)
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Nick Turse
is a journalist, historian, managing editor for TomDispatch.com, and a fellow
at the Nation Institute. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation.
His investigations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam have gained him a Ridenhour
Prize for Reportorial Distinction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at
Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Hosted by Philip Butler, PhD, former
Naval Pilot & Vietnam POW. Butler is a 1961 graduate
of the United States Naval Academy and a former
light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam,
where he spent eight years as a prisoner of war. A combat veteran awarded
two Silver Stars, two Legion of Merits, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Heart
medals, Butler is now a peace and justice activist with Veterans for Peace.
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Co-Sponsored by Veterans
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(East Bay)
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