Week 7_Vivianne Lee_ASA150E

     In this week's reading The War after the War by Nayan Chanda, the author discusses the third Indochina war that happened after the Fall of Saigon where the Vietnamese and the Cambodian communists continued to show hatred towards each other and fight over territory. Chanda states that "As the second Indochina war was ending, a new war between comrades and brothers was in the making" (4). It was interesting to read about the war after the Vietnam war because I had never learned it in my U.S history classes, probably because U.S history wants to portray the U.S involvement in the war a certain way. Instead of telling what really happened, they want the U.S to be portrayed as victories. I also had no knowledge of the China's involvement during the Vietnam War. Reading this article made me realize how the U.S will only go to war for their benefit and will back out as soon as the U.S feels like it and takes no responsibilities. During the Vietnam War, the U.S decided to leave the South Vietnamese soldiers and did not care to be involved in the aftermath. Because of this, the U.S caused conflicts between the Southeast Asians even after the Vietnam War.
A question I have is, will the U.S ever change how history will be taught? Or will history always be taught incomplete?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts,_1979–1991