Vietnam War

Year: 2017

Grade: A

Country: USA

Director: Burns/Novick

Review

great series about the vietnam war told chronologically and in an unbiased way. shows how both liberals and conservatives failed the country by engaging in the war and sticking with it far beyond the point of reason. LBJ is seen by many as a great president because of civil rights achievements, but i really don’t think much of him and the vietnam war is a big part of that. literally millions of people died because of this war…even after everyone knew that we couldn’t help the south vietnam the way we had intended. LBJ has a lot of blood on his hands.

another thing is that i always grew up thinking that america basically went looking for a war because of the domino principle and it was evil american imperialism. in fact, there was a very reasonable moral argument to be made regarding the protection of the south vietnamese people. i completely understand us going there early on. one of the many ways we failed, though, is in not getting international support. we should have done that in order to make the defense of the south a moral issue supported by the west, instead of us and a small contingent of allies.
absolute tragedy.