11-10-2017, 05:43 PM
I just finished this overlong, bloated mediocrity.
I wish I had not.
But since I am writing about it, it have to.
The problem is simple: Burns and Novick don't have anything to say. So they pad it all out with these personal stories that end up being maudlin when it gets to the Vietnam Memorial.
But the worst thing is the lack of any kind of analysis to explain what happened. How the USA completely miscalculated Vietnam's importance, and also the so called international communist conspiracy that did not exist. And finally, that the USA really did not learn anything except as George W Bush said, "We have to kick this Vietnam syndrome".
I wish I had not.
But since I am writing about it, it have to.
The problem is simple: Burns and Novick don't have anything to say. So they pad it all out with these personal stories that end up being maudlin when it gets to the Vietnam Memorial.
But the worst thing is the lack of any kind of analysis to explain what happened. How the USA completely miscalculated Vietnam's importance, and also the so called international communist conspiracy that did not exist. And finally, that the USA really did not learn anything except as George W Bush said, "We have to kick this Vietnam syndrome".
