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Ken Burns' "VIET NAM: Anyone watch?

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.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: agitprop; anotherstupidvanity; kenboobleftist; kenburns; no; vietnam
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1 posted on 09/18/2017 9:49:51 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I don’t need to smell crap to know that it stinks.


2 posted on 09/18/2017 9:50:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DIRTYSECRET

NOPE.


3 posted on 09/18/2017 9:50:49 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: DIRTYSECRET
... but it would have meant quitting on the French.
Yeah, like we owed them anything.
4 posted on 09/18/2017 9:52:29 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: dfwgator

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.


5 posted on 09/18/2017 9:53:09 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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...


6 posted on 09/18/2017 9:53:30 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Civil War was great Basball was good that was it for me. I dont need him to tell me what i lived through.


7 posted on 09/18/2017 9:54:12 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yes. Old memories and wounds.


8 posted on 09/18/2017 9:55:37 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: God luvs America

Did he mention us turning down the request to use nukes at Dien Bien Phu?


9 posted on 09/18/2017 9:58:42 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: God luvs America
his jumping from 1947 to 1967 in a moments notice was very annoying

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 ..."

10 posted on 09/18/2017 9:58:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

"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!!!"

11 posted on 09/18/2017 10:01:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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.


12 posted on 09/18/2017 10:03:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: DownInFlames

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.


13 posted on 09/18/2017 10:03:52 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: God luvs America

“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


14 posted on 09/18/2017 10:04:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Any one with a hair-doo like that is impossible for me to even consider watching, never mind believing


15 posted on 09/18/2017 10:05:10 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: dfwgator

Very nicely said


16 posted on 09/18/2017 10:05:10 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: Seruzawa

Interest is because it’s in our time. Watch it for the informative factor.

btw: Hit it Rush!


17 posted on 09/18/2017 10:06:03 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: easternsky

I use the line “’Cause I know that’s the popular version of what went on there” all the time.


18 posted on 09/18/2017 10:06:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Seruzawa

Isn’t it amazing that anything bad that ever happens in History ultimately ties back to the French?


19 posted on 09/18/2017 10:08:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ClearCase_guy
I didn't see any of it, so perhaps I am being unfair.

You're right. You're being unfair. The rest of your post bears no resemblance to the episode aired last night.

20 posted on 09/18/2017 10:10:19 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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