[oh8eleven]

Good assessment, well worth reading.

My own take (so far) is that the VC/NVA and the Hanoi brain-trust are presented as heroes ... cunning, intelligent, so much smarter than the Americans.
While America and especially the troops are stupid, evil and just not able to keep up with the - oh so superior - North Vietnamese.
And as to the scumbag, cowardly protestors ... they can go eff themselves. They're the real reason we lost the war.

[Terry Mross]

Am I the only one who sees this Musgrave guy as a little over dramatic?

[HamiltonJay]

I haven’t seen every episode, caught a few, certainly not jingoist, but the interviewees have shown great pride and patriotism in their statements... The general storyline being offered by the documentary is clearly not rah rah... but it is hard to rah rah something where your own government was lying to its people and sending young men to die pointlessly.

And by pointlessly, I don’t mean that the desire to stop the spread of communism was pointless, but that the tactics of military policy at the time were often pointless.