Highly informative!

A question posed on Reddit.

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Hi, I am a Vietnamese HS student and just curious about how the US teaches the next generation about the Vietnam War. I know this gonna be controversial so let me share mine first.

Vietnamese do NOT call the war “Vietnam War”, instead, we call it “Cuộc kháng chiến chống Mỹ” (resistance war) as this was NOT a war between the “North” and “South” Vietnamese, it was about Vietnamese and Americans + Chính quyền tay sai (don’t know this in English; basically, it’s like “henchman government”. If you get this, pls comment the right term for me)

Vietnamese do NOT say Vietnam was split, instead, Vietnam was TEMPORARILY split. According to the Geneva Conventions (1954), the 17 parallel of latitude was NOT a border and Vietnam must have the elector to form the government by July 1956. But then, the US completely violated the Conventions by forming a nonsense South Government without any elector (which I call “Chính quyền tay sai” before).

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Makes complete sense. We DID NOT learn it this way, obviously, and DID NOT hear any of this from our media. In the antiwar movement we did hear rumors along these lines, but we weren’t sure what to believe.

This clarifies the situation entirely, and agrees entirely with the vicious Yankee approach to EVERY FUCKING THING from 1776 to 1861 to 1918 to right now. We always break all rules and treaties and laws. The only exception to this pattern is 1941, the ONE time we were actually attacked and then fought against the attacker. In 2001 we were actually attacked by Saudi, so Bush destroyed several innocent countries while befriending and aiding our attacker. Specific treason.