The Vietnamese don't trample the American flag underfoot, but they get on America's nerves as much as they want.
Author: Mojtaba Lashkari
The war between the United States and Vietnam began in 1955 and ended twenty years later, in 1975. The war earned the title of "the longest war of the 20th century." During these twenty years, the US has not missed a single crime against the people of this country. The number of bombs that the United States dropped on the people of Vietnam exceeded the total number of bombs that the Allies used against each other in World War II...
American soldiers used a poisonous mixture called Agent Orange to prevent Viet Cong soldiers from hiding under tree canopies. In 1969 alone, this “agent” destroyed a million hectares of forest. “Agent Blue” was another chemical sprayed on crops to destroy food supplies in North Vietnam.
In addition to the three million dead, up to three generations of Vietnamese faced problems such as unplanned abortions or birth defects. At the Vietnam War Museum, several of these congenital cripples, about fifty centimeters tall, with short arms and disfigured faces, made handicrafts and sold them to tourists. They were a living part of the museum.
If there is one country in the world that wants to sever ties with the United States forever, burning its flag every day, it is Vietnam. But what do the Vietnamese do? How, instead of trampling the American flag, do they get on the nerves of the United States?
With its unique economic growth, producing outstanding export products, becoming a safe country for business, living, and investing, focusing on cutting-edge areas such as the Internet, and becoming a business partner for American companies, it has created such an attractive business environment that American companies have chosen to manufacture here among the 200 countries in the world!
The Vietnamese have made the 43-year war not a stop in the past, but a source of income. They organize a war and jungle tour, collect money from foreign tourists, and show them wartime tunnels, military weapons of that era, a documentary about the bravery of the Viet Cong, etc.
No country is a permanent friend or enemy of any other country. Only national interest is constant. Neither friendship nor enmity with others. What is important is that in every friendly relationship, the people's national interests must be ensured, and every hostile relationship must not lead to violating them.
