You’re starting to sound like Johnny One-Note here. Let it go. Stop looking for some hidden political agenda in every frame and view it for what it is, the individual views of the participants in the War, from the grunt’s point of view, as it were. It’s a good documentary about a subject matter that needed to be covered before all of the participants were dead and buried. Thank you Ken Burns, you liberal you, for doing it. Where are the conservative documentarians who could pull this off? I don’t know of any. But Burns could and did, for which I am thankful. I do not find it objectionable on a political level and if there is the occasional inference, it is surely minimal and non-invasive to the documentary as a whole. I think you have to go out of your way to try to find something to complain about, and do it because that is how you want to view it, through your own political prism.
Now, what I’ve found interesting so far, the one guy who said he saw a Japanese pilot laughing after an attack, and how after that he actually started to hunt the enemy and wasn’t happy if on a given day he hadn’t polished one off. Plus the guy who said they took no prisoners after they saw what the Jap soldiers had done to some of their men that they had tortured and killed. And the guy that said they had basically executed some Jap soldiers rather than take them as prisoner. War was fought differently in those days, it was fought to win, not some PC war like is being fought today in Iraq and Afghanistan where are troops fight with one hand tied behind their back. Or our own gov’t pursues charges against them (the Haditha soldiers being an example), disgraceful. And various aspects of the war was censored in WWII but the reporters knew which side they were on, again, not like today where the press is totally adversarial, and don’t seem to know whose side they really are on.
I might add, while this film, as well as virtually all other commentary on the subject, portrays the internment of the Japanese as a bad mistake, I question how U.S. citizens will feel if a group of home-grown Muzzies blow up one of our major cities or commit some other major atrocity in the U.S. I wonder how adverse our citizens would be to kicking Muzzies out of this country or interning them, if it meant our very survival. When you don’t know if the Muzzie living next to you is friend or foe. I know how I’d feel and what I would want done.