Not Repeating Lessons from Costly Past Mistakes Podcast
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Not Repeating Lessons from Costly Past Mistakes Podcast
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In Season 1 of Ken Burns documentary series on the Vietnam War entitled, “The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (Vietnam: Burns and Novick),” his narrative helps illustrates mistakes the United States made in managing a war we intentionally provoked. Mistakes that likely could have been avoided by a more balanced 360 degree look at the “Domino Theory,” taking our politicians’ egos out of the equation - especially LBJ’s, who after admitting on tape recorded phone calls that fighting a war in Vietnam likely would be the biggest mistake he ever made, one he didn’t want to fight, and one he couldn’t easily get out of without risking being “impeached” for being the first president to lose an American war. Despite his own recorded comments, he kept sending increasing larger numbers of troops to fight in Vietnam to keep South Vietnam’s independence. The irony was, that South Vietnam was a corrupt state that didn’t want to fight for their own freedom. At the end, a humanitarian catastrophe occurred, and the United States wasted billions of dollars and caused hundreds of thousands of war casualties among the combatants.
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