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The Burns documentary accepts without question five pillars of the liberal view of the war:
1. There was moral equivalency between the U.S. and Communist forces, and the goals and objectives of the respective governments.
2. President Johnson and General Westmoreland accomplished nothing.
3. The wars waged in Laos and Cambodia are irrelevant and were just part of the “civil war” in South Vietnam.
4. South Vietnam was so corrupt that the North was a viable alternative.
5. America was not and has never been exceptional.
It is the raison d’être of Mr. Burns’ film to justify the cowardly and morally bankrupt left that supported the communist invasion of South Vietnam and turned its back on the murder, imprisonment, and misery of our former allies in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. One cannot be against the South Vietnamese without being for the communists who conquered and enslaved 17 million people. Only by painting the war as immoral, illegal, and un-winnable, and the South Vietnamese government as evil and inept, can the American left hope to rest in peace. It shouldn’t bet the farm on that.
Vietnam was VERY corrupt.