The Ken Burns doc is informational in some ways and a joke in others, particularly in the way it frames America's involvement from the outset as one of having b

The Ken Burns doc is informational in some ways and a joke in others, particularly in the way it frames America's involvement from the outset as one of having been "sucked into" an unwanted war, a framing which is unsupported by historical evidence. The reality is that the US systematically executed tens of thousands of unarmed civilians and committed countless atrocities along the way including regularly torturing and raping civilians, as was documented by the American government. But this contrasts the the image of America as most people see it, which is why Burns saw it fit to exclude the full extent of US war crimes from his documentary.