The American War: Through the horrors of the Vietnam War the time travelers struggled to understand the mindless aggression of the human race. They must decide whether this insane Earth species can be allowed to live or must die.

The alien surveillance of Vietnam has revealed only contradictions and madness. The Marregh/Riken have watched the war with the Americans through the eyes of the Viet Cong Guerrilla Nguyan Nam Kim, and now watch a mirror version of those war years through the mind melt with the US Marine Irvin Jones. In a desperate effort to stop an out of control massacre of helpless Vietnamese villagers Jones accidentally fires a shot that kills his commanding officer. His platoon sergeant is determined t...