I think the offense should come from realizing that the North Vietnamese were "situational enemies", who could just as easily have been friends if the interests of international finance had required it.
One has to read the news very carefully, to see what hidden meanings lurk behind politicians' calls to military action.
Absolutely; the war is treated as a “misunderstanding” that cost a lot of American lives (and ruined many more) while killing millions of Asians in both Vietnams, Cambodia, and Laos...