War Crimes in Vietnam [Paperback]

In this harsh and unsparing book, Bertrand Russell presents theunvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam. He argues that Tounderstand the war, we must understand America -and, in doing so, wemust understand that racism in the United States created a climate inwhich it was difficult for Americans to understand what they were doingin Vietnam. According to Russell, it was this same racism thatprovoked a barbarous, chauvinist outcry when American pilots who havebombed hospitals, schools, dykes, and civilian centres are accused ofcommitting war crimes. Even today, more than forty years later, thischauvinist moral blindness permitted John McCain to run for Presidenteffectively unchallenged when he gloried in his exploits in bombing theVietnamese.