"The Vietnam war"de Ken Burns déforme l'histoire ( Francis P. Sempa)

Si j'ai personnellement grandement apprécié le récent documentaire de Lynn Novick et Ken Burns sur PBS, ce n'est pas le cas de Francis P. Sempa qui y voit une représentation déformée de l'histoire. Ses arguments valent bien quelques minutes de notre temps. Une vision trop démocrate ou trop progressiste?

 "The real heroes of the war, according to Burns, Novick and Ward, were not the U.S. servicemen, who mostly served bravely and honorably despite being led by incompetent civilian leaders like President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (and careerist generals who waged the defensive war planned by their civilian masters without public complaint or resignation), but journalists like Neil Sheehan, bureaucrats like Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers, the sainted Bobby Kennedy whose “moral” compass would presumably have stopped the war if he had not been assassinated (Kennedy’s moral compass, however, did not prevent him from repeatedly trying to assassinate the leader of Cuba, wiretapping Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, and advising his brother the President to go along with the disastrous coup against South Vietnamese President Diem), draftees who fled to Canada, and anti-war protestors. With respect to the latter, Burns, Novick and Ward predictably highlight the views of Vietnam veterans who served honorably and subsequently became critics of the war—their voices and opinions dominate the program."

  https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/10/10/pbs_the_vietnam_war_miseducates_america_112456.html