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The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll

Posted by M. C. on September 30, 2017

No one talks about civilian casualties. It is bad for business. War is a business

Burns works with PBS. PBS is one of the warparty’s useful idiots.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/the-ken-burns-vietnam-war-documentary-glosses-over-devastating-civilian-toll/

Like Burns and Novick, I also spent a decade working on a Vietnam War epic, though carried out on a far more modest budget, a book titled “Kill Anything That Moves.” Like Burns and Novick, I spoke with military men and women, Americans and Vietnamese. Like Burns and Novick, I thought I could learn “what happened” from them. It took me years to realize that I was dead wrong. That might be why I find “The Vietnam War” and its seemingly endless parade of soldier and guerrilla talking heads so painful to watch. Read the rest of this entry »

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