Posted on 09/18/2017 9:49:51 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Leftist slant but informative. We had our opportunities with Ho Chi Min but it would have meant quitting on the French. Russian/Chinese expansion as well as the development of nuclear weapons may have handcuffed us. Dividing the country was was made to look like Korea redux-probably true. A complete misunderstanding of what's going on in other cultures. 57k lost lives later we haven't learned our lesson in the mid-east. Ken Burns gave us the 'well intended' bone.
I don’t need to smell crap to know that it stinks.
NOPE.
Screw Ken Burns. I know what to expect in his documentaries. That is why I don’t watch them. I have seen some pretty good old documentaries about Vietnam on the Newsmax channel.
i watched a little bit of it....i’m big into Vietnam history so i’m aware of much..
what little amount i saw yesterday was fair- the beginnings of the Vietnam involvement started with Truman and basically we went in to save france’s arse...i don’t know how much more i will watch but what little i saw last night was historically accurate...
his jumping from 1947 to 1967 in a moments notice was very annoying and distracting and foreshadows the shape of things to come...
Civil War was great Basball was good that was it for me. I dont need him to tell me what i lived through.
Yes. Old memories and wounds.
Did he mention us turning down the request to use nukes at Dien Bien Phu?
I didn't see any of it, so perhaps I am being unfair. But I suspect the narrative is supposed to be "Truman started it -- you know, that SOB dropped nukes on Japan!!" then we skip right over JFK and almost all of LBJ -- and WHAM! "Here we have Richard Nixon burning down villages to save them and personally ordering the Mai Lai massacre, and napalming little children -- darn that Nixon! He was a Republican you know. Very much like Donald Trump ..."
"Is he right? 'Cause I know that's the popular version of what went on there, and a lot of people like to believe that. I wish I could but I was there! I wasn't up here in a classroom, hoping I was right, thinking about it, I was up to my knees in rice paddies! With guns that didn't work, going up against Charlie, sluggin it out with him, while PUSSIES LIKE YOU were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, LISTENING TO THE G........N BEATLE ALBUMS! Ahhhhhhh AHhhhhhh AHHHHHHHHH!!!"
F*** the French. Truman screwed it up. We could have had Cam Ranh Bay as an overseas base. Truman’s sucking up to the French was a failure anyhow.
I doubt that there is anything that Burns could tell me about Vietnam.
For those of us who caught the live show in person. They probably won’t get much watching a liberal slant by yet another leftist PBS documentary.
I personally could care less what the N viets, the VC or US hippie anti war protesters thought and have no desire to watch PBS give them the propaganda platform thru the films interviews.
I would get more informative views of the world watching spongebob reruns. Some day, maybe PBS commies will lose their taxpayer funding, someday.
“his jumping from 1947 to 1967 in a moments notice was very annoying and distracting and foreshadows the shape of things to come...”
If he did that and doesn’t include JFK’s screwing the pooch in Nam.
Then, he omitted LBJ’s big lies about the second incident in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Go to the link below to read what happened not LBJ’s lies!
The Truth About Tonkin!:
Questions about the Gulf of Tonkin incidents have persisted for more than 40 years. But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2008-02/truth-about-tonkin
Any one with a hair-doo like that is impossible for me to even consider watching, never mind believing
Very nicely said
Interest is because it’s in our time. Watch it for the informative factor.
btw: Hit it Rush!
I use the line “’Cause I know that’s the popular version of what went on there” all the time.
Isn’t it amazing that anything bad that ever happens in History ultimately ties back to the French?
You're right. You're being unfair. The rest of your post bears no resemblance to the episode aired last night.
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