re: #226 HappyWarrior

Right. I’d like more NV stories too but you’re right. That their story is being told at all is a great improvement from what we’ve seen in the past. I do think Burns docu is American centric for a reason given the target audience.

Given the fact that this was filmed for an American audience, I think Burns did a great job of including Vietnamese voices. The enormity of the tragedy is staggering. Millions of Vietnamese died, mostly unnecessary, as we knew almost from the start of our direct involvement that we almost certainly could not win the war. We should’ve backed Ho Chi Min against the French in the 1940’s as an anti-colonial liberator of his country, but we were too blinded with anti-communist fervor.