Bing West, NYPost: Missing from Ken Burns’ ‘Vietnam’: The patriotism and pride of those who fought
To understand Ken Burns’ 18-hour Vietnam documentary, listen to the music. The haunting score tells you: This will be a tale of misery. And indeed, Burns and his co-author Geoffrey C. Ward conclude their script by writing, “The Vietnam War was a tragedy, immeasurable and irredeemable. But meaning can be found in the individual stories . . .”
The film is meticulous in the veracity of the hundreds of factoids that were selected. Everything depicted on the American side actually happened. But that the chosen facts are accurate doesn’t mean the film gets everything right. Indeed, the brave American veterans are portrayed with a keen sense of regret and embarrassment about the war, a distortion that must not go unanswered. And the film implies an unearned moral equivalence between antiwar protesters and those who fought.
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WNU Editor: I noticed the same thing .... and it is my pet peeve when it comes to how the media operates. It is not what is reported that irks me .... it is what the main stream media chooses to ignore that bothers me.
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The ghouls continue to feed on this carcass.
what the film does show: how presidents from both parties got further and further involved in a war to make sure they would get reelected despite being fully aware that we were not going to win given the corrupt leadership in South Viet Nam...it was the outspoken voices of the American public that turned our nation away from the war.
" how presidents from both parties got further and further involved in a war" - Fred
"that's what we in the pray trade call a lie" - Cavil
"He [NIXON] pledged to end the war in Vietnam" - Wiki
And Nixon did. He successfully Vietnamized the war. The unsuccessful 1972 offensive by North Vietnam proves it.
Ghasts too, apparently!
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