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Originally Posted by Seahawk
'The Vietnam War' is a masterpiece --- and a model for assessing our history - George Will
Many Americans' moral vanity is expressed nowadays in their rage to disparage.
They are incapable of measured judgments about past politics -- about flawed historical figures who were forced by cascading circumstances to make difficult decisions on the basis of imperfect information. So, the nation now needs an example of how to calmly assess episodes fraught with passion and sorrow. An example arrives September 17.
For 10 nights on PBS, Ken Burns' and Lynn Novick's "The Vietnam War," 10 years in the making and 18 hours in length, tells the story of a war "begun in good faith by decent people, out of fateful misunderstandings," and "prolonged because it seemed easier to muddle through than admit that it had been caused by tragic decisions" during five presidencies.
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That sounds just like something I would say....oh wait I did yesterday.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/952155-north-k-again-4.html
"Guns" was about how WW1 started because EVENTS got out of control because of mistakes being made because of misconceptions.
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he conclusion that you should have drawn is that mistakes in judgment can be made...misconceptions, misinterpretations and or miscalculations; where one event leads to another in a cascading of events that leads to war. ...TABS 9/17/17
What I gathered from episode One is how mistaken perceptions of the situation clouded decision makers judgement which caused them to make mistakes. LBJ in particular could not see through the haze of Communism to see that what the fighting in Vietnam was all about was a civil war...
Then if ya want you can extrapolate the American experience in Vietnam unto the American involvement in Iraq and the ME at large. American decision makers are less than clear about the situation and that has made another fine mess for America to muddle through...What are we up to in the newest quagmire 3 or 4T USD...money which America can not have afforded to blow. One perchance thinks that might be the last American adventure.
Now we have another blow brewing in NK....
Quite frankly I am tired of the best and supposedly brightest being stupid all the time....