Chris Hedges: Vietnam War, Like the Later Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Was 'One Long Atrocity' (Video)

Chris Hedges: Vietnam War, Like the Later Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Was ‘One Long Atrocity’ (Video)

Hedges and Nick Turse, author of “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam," discuss how American wars of occupation are "primarily about murder."Chris Hedges and Nick Turse, author of “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam," discuss how American wars of occupation are "primarily about murder."

In the latest episode of “On Contact,” Chris Hedges and Nick Turse, author of “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam,” discuss how American wars of occupation are “primarily about murder.”

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