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Why did the American news media and the Vietnam War focus on the PAVN and VC as "brutal, cruel, fanatic, sinister, untrustworthy, and warlike"?
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The American news media and the Vietnam War focused on the PAVN and VC as "brutal, cruel, fanatic, sinister, untrustworthy, and warlike" because they were portrayed as such by the American government. The American government used the "domino theory" to justify the American intervention in order to prevent regional domination by China, overlooking centuries of hostility between the