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This is Murray Polner's blog. Polner, who writes book reviews for HNN, is the author of “No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran” and “When Can We Come Home? A Debate on Amnesty for Exiles, Anti-War Prisoners and Others.”

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  • Apr 24, 2018 1:30 pm

    It’s been 48 years since Kent State

    by Murray Polner

    The truth as a handful of intrepid historians have pointed out is that had there not been a Cold War mentality there would never have been a Vietnam. And had there not have been a Vietnam War there would never have been a bloodbath at Kent State.
  • Feb 4, 2018 5:30 pm

    Trump's War?

    by Murray Polner

    Democrats, once doggedly antiwar, are largely silent about a war against North Korea
  • Apr 23, 2017 11:43 am

    Nuclear War Anyone?

    by Murray Polner

    The certain outcome of a war against North Korea would mean leaving Pyongyang and Seoul in ashes and millions dead including U.S. troops.
  • Mar 14, 2017 11:08 am

    On Obama's Failure to Reshape US Foreign Policy

    by Murray Polner

    I wrote this in early 2010 for The American Conservative, an anti-neocon  magazine. Trump is simply awful but before Obama starts writing his memoirs, I want to remember him as I saw him then and continue seeing him as a failure in reshaping the way we conduct foreign affairs and continue our endless, pointless wars.
  • Feb 23, 2017 10:48 am

    A Nuclear War?

    by Murray Polner

    A nuclear war between Russia and the U.S. is still possible.
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