Posted on 09/21/2017 9:20:30 AM PDT by oh8eleven
Most of the interviewees talk in the lugubrious tones of the defeated. We all know the story ends badly. But when it’s over, we aren’t told why we lost. The music is more memorable than the pictures, and the pictures are more compelling than the narration. We are deluged by sights and sounds but not enlightened as to cause and effect.
The film casts the antiwar movement in a moderately favorable light. Are the protesters the real heroes here? What about the valiant US soldiers, 75 percent of whom were volunteers?
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I really enjoyed his Civil War and Baseball series, own both and watch them often.
yep-
AND the Communists ADMITTED they were LOSING the war!
finally admitted to losing a MILION yes,a MILLION men!
WE allowed them sanctuary in laos, Cambodia and their OWN
country- to this day the communists kill and slaughter Christians- hey, at least they praise John Mclame for helping! sarc
Maybe ultra Demonrat ken B. can do a series on war hero mclame- double sarc
Yes, burns is a LIB loser. He will tow the leftist party line every time.
We didn't lose.
We left.
“My husband was in the Air Force and stationed in Taiwan. According to him, everybody was using a lot if drugs. Could that have anything to do with the outcome?”
When was he there? After about 1968, the quality of many draftees was, shall we say, lacking.
Been watching the show and it’s not missing at all.
Also has more on the scheming among the Vietnamese Politburo than I’ve ever seen on TV.
You’re suggesting the American fighting man lost the war because he was on drugs? Please.
He joined in 70 I think.
The military won the war. Washington lost it.
I never said America lost the war. We did lose about 60,000 Americans, though.
Not watching it. I already lived it, so no need to go back because it is 50 years in the past.
Burns is a BIG TIME leftist Ted Kennedy lover and Obama worshipper.
In the rear, away from the battle front that was somewhat true...
Out in the field, no way!
Three things:
• Giap admitted to losing 600,000 – which means it must have been a LOT more. THEY did all the dying.
• Of all the minority Americans who fought in Nam, over 75% were volunteers, NOT draftees. To a man, every one of them did honorable service. To suggest anything else is a slap in the face to all of them.
• When we left there, S Vietnamese in the 10’s of thousands ran to the coast to board the most dangerously unseaworthy craft. They took their lives in their hands to head out into the S China sea to escape the Communists. THESE are the same courageous people who for YEARS-sat still for privation, sacrifice, destruction of their homes, carpet bombing, etc. because it was worth it to save their country and their lives. Knowing the US was out of the fight, they would rather leave and take their chances in the ocean in those flimsy boats, than to stay and be murdered by the Communists.
Facts and statistics mean absolutely nothing to Liberals
That makes me think of something a while back I read about that apparently Lady Bird’s business interests and investments (as they were kept all under her name) were tied to government military contracts and thus stood to get rich from the war being dragged out over the years. Not surprising that LBJ basically sat on the whole thing and really did not want to fight to win the war like what could have been done very early on as per your post.
Our troops did not lose the war on the ground. In fact we decimated the VC and NV and they were no longer able to field an effective combat force - which is why they signed the peace accord in 1973. Our combat troops left in orderly fashion and under no duress.
The “loss” occurred some two years later in 1975, after we left, due in large part to the actions of the communist-enablers and various other opportunists serving in the U.S. government. Most clearly, it was a political loss not at all due to the conduct of our military force.
The “panicked final pullout” he refers to was also somewhat orderly, at least on the part of the U.S. - it was as hurried as that of any embassy staff facing the approach of hostile combat troops, and because of the U.S. effort to evacuate as many SV personnel as possible.
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