tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093577975402549581.post4944027798412975850..comments2023-06-27T08:18:26.238-05:00Comments on The Center Seat: platoonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16007892374112092022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093577975402549581.post-80573399185457251532010-11-23T15:07:36.565-06:002010-11-23T15:07:36.565-06:00Thanks for the recommendations! I need to add thos...Thanks for the recommendations! I need to add those two to my Netflix.Nayana Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16332782426894904414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093577975402549581.post-66603456687759683132010-11-22T18:39:58.121-06:002010-11-22T18:39:58.121-06:00Great review. I watched this movie a long time ag...Great review. I watched this movie a long time ago and I think I better rewatch it soon. <br /><br />Two movies I watched recently have changed my view of the events encapsulated in the term Viet Nam. <br /><br />First is the Fog of War - ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/ ) a doc by Errol Morris about Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations). He was there helping advise Presidents about Viet Nam from the beginning. The most interesting part (whole movie is great) is a conference he set up between North Viet Namese forces and American generals and politicians in the late 1990s. Apparently he almost got into a fist fight with some Viet Namese bloke who insisted that the conflict was a war for their independence from all western colonial powers while McNamara gave the US line of stopping the spread of Communism and the whole China was secretly spreading Maoism to its neighbors. <br /><br />The second is Sir! No Sir! ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469589/ ) another documentary. This is about the antiwar demonstrations and subversion done by soldiers back from and in Viet Nam. History was rewritten to have the antiwar movement versus the troops in and back from SE Asia, rather than the more accurate account that nobody knew how bad it was in Nam until the soldiers came back and told the world. The big revelation to me was that whole story about returning GIs being spit on and called baby-killer was just government propaganda. Not a single instance of this happening can be found. It never happened, and it was the soldiers themselves who revealed to the world the atrocious atrocities that they were involved in and how they were pushed into it by the military and US foreign policy.valishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09961528605975277364noreply@blogger.com