Ken Burns’ "The War" Teaches False History LessonRandy Shawbyline‚ Sep. 24‚ 2007Since the turn of the 20th Century, the United States has embarked on an almost continuous series of lengthy wars: the Spanish-American War, World War I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam and now Iraq. The nation has also regularly sent troops abroad to overturn democratically elected governments. The one struggle in which the United States fought heroically for freedom and to preserve its way of life is World War II, a struggle that conflicts with the nation’s traditional war agenda. And it is accounts of World War II that still dominate the U.S. media more than sixty years later. Think that’s an accident? Then you probably believe that PBS would have approved a 7-part, 15-hour Ken Burns series on the immoral Vietnam War in the midst of our national debate over Iraq, instead of a further exhalting of "The Greatest Generation." |