Not a bad summary. I can’t watch the series, though.
I dislike Burns as a leftist, and anything that is on PBS cannot give a fair, non-liberal viewpoint. They make the window dressing of giving fair treatment by throwing a bone here and there, but...it isn’t.
Vietnam is a black stain on our nation’s honor, and it isn’t because we “lost”, it is because we stabbed an ally fully, deliberately, and without a second thought, right in between the shoulder blades. I have long thought that if we had held up our end of the Paris Accord, events in 1975 wouldn’t have played out as they did. We would have likely ended up viewing it retrospectively the same way we did the Korean War.
And I blame liberals for that, the ones who took over government in the wake of Nixon’s resignation when they gained a 2/3 majority in Congress. The Vietnamese Communists may have been filthy, beady-eyed communist tyrants, but as with all tyrants, they recognized weakness when they saw it.
Yes, I remarked to the person who sent this to me originally that there only needs a minor correction:
“In other words, the RVN had won the battles but lost the war because of the Democrat’s betrayal.”