![Pentagon’s Airstrike in Syria Resembles Washington’s ‘Pretext to Vietnam War’ Pentagon’s Airstrike in Syria Resembles Washington’s ‘Pretext to Vietnam War’](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1052402783-310x168.jpg)
Washington’s show of force in Syria highlights its approach to sparking wars, Vietnamese defense analyst Colonel Le The Mau told Sputnik, drawing a parallel between the Pentagon’s massive airstrike against Damascus and the Gulf of Tonkin incident which led to the United States’ full-scale military involvement in Vietnam.
“The missile attack on an air base in Syria has put a spotlight on the way America’s war machine sparks aggressive wars against sovereign states.