[kabar]

I had the benefit of listening to the Costas' one hour interview with Burns about the series. Burns made no bones about the fact that the Iraq war is a major mistake and most of the American people don't support it. He compared it to WWII, the "necessary war" that all Americans supported. Burns [and Costas] despise Bush. Burns also mentioned that many who fought were children of immigrants making a comparison to the way we treat immigrants now. Of no differentiation between legal and illegal.

I will watch the entire series, but I don't view it as a real documentary about WWII. It is about individual perceptions of what was happening based on the personal experience of individuals who were participants but not movers and shakers in terms of the events. Burns uses these anecdotes to support his view of history, which is more subjective than objective. His view of MacArthur is somewhat one-sided.

[donnab]

at least those immigrants knew where there allegiance was...unlike today where you hear things like they cannot be separated from their homelands.