re: The Vietnam War (Ken Burns)

So..what I get from all off this is, we should have got buddy buddy with uncle Ho in the 40's, then denied France's claim to Indochina.

Unlike the other communist countries Vietnam did preserve a national identity above all. They also looked towards the west for trade.(They are an ally now)

Seems we share a lot of blame for putting stopping communism above ending colonialism.

I never knew that the Vietnamese independence speech started out with a Thomas Jefferson quote.

While this may lean left, I thought a good job was done showing the mistakes made by three democrats who made the war worse.

Truman's decision to back France's claim to the colony.

Kennedy not wanting to pull out until afterc the election.

Johnson sending in ground troops while telling Americans he is pulling back. The last two put party politics before the nation's interests.