PNWguy Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Anybody else watching it? I think I'm on the third installment and am amazed at just how much I did not know about Vietnam in regards to the country's history and how the whole thing came about. I suspect that there is a fair amount of slanted editing to promote the leftist viewpoint, much like 98% of all media these days, but still I am really enjoying the history lesson. Any experts on Vietnam care to chime in and comment on how accurate the series is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Schultz Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I have the series downloaded and plan to watch it this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Good series. Showed just how screwed we were. The north were hypocritical communists but the south was even more corrupt than the north. We were backing filth who had no ability to govern a democratic government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valmet Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Watching “The War” now (WW2), Vietnam is next on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWguy Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 I was amazed at just how aware JFK and LBJ were in regards to how much of a cluster Vietnam was going to be, yet still got involved. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul45 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 My wife and I watched. Just really left us really sad and surprised at the whole thing. It seemed like after the 20th time someone said "let's throw another 50,000 troops at it", or "we can see victory very, very soon", that "they" would ask themselves What the Heck are we doing?? Just really sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdsnet Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 19 minutes ago, paul45 said: Watch The Post. The Pentagon papers proved that four presidents were involved in a huge lie. By 1965 our government knew there was no way to win the war yet sent 55,000 boys to their deaths. I love my country but what happened was wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theglock Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Just watched most of it. Thought it was very well done, and informative. But when they reported on the "world-wide protests in 1968" I got more suspicious of the 'facts' presented throughout the series. In that 'protest' segment they included the protests in Prague, as if that, too, was against the US. In truth, the Prague protests were anti-Soviet/Warsaw Pact inspired, and caused the Pact to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968. Those facts were never mentioned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyofforty Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 There was a way to win, or at least not lose and condemn tens of millions of people to torture, starvation, and death. The fact is that we were unwilling to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonMerlin Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Funny I can watch and enjoy WWI and WWII movies. I don’t seem to like or enjoy any movies about my war. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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