No, this is the same as the all those hack writers saying that the Oct. 7th attack on Israel is the same as 9/11.
It's a lazy comparison that is obviously incorrect with any amount of scrutiny or historical context.
Yes, there is a single near-parallel in that "a military conflict is happening", but that is where the similarities end.
If the argument is that any country ever in a war is like any other country ever connected to a war, it doesn't seem like a very worthwhile thing to post.
Dissimilarities:
There is no direct American involvement in the war, only the perpetuation of military aid to a 75-year-old Ally.
Almost zero Americans are dying, while nearly 300000 US soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam.
The US got its ass kicked in Vietnam, whereas obviously Palestine has no comparable military retaliatory ability against Israel.
Again, the US is not directly involved in this war. This is not going to generationally affect the US in the way that a generation of wounded and a traumatized US soldiers actually did affect US society following Vietnam. Up until a few months ago, US awareness of this 75-year-old conflict was basically nil outside of sitcom references.
American tiktokers are trying to make this about themselves and so they're comparing it to one of yhe only wars they have heard of, the Vietnam War, which is absurd and misguing it.
This probably should have been number one, but the Vietnam War occurred directly because of a lie lie told by the military to Congress to trick the US government into going to war. The current war is occurring because Palestine attacked Israel with an act of terrorism for the nth number of times Palestine and Israel have attacked each other with acts of terrorism.
The 75 year Palestinian genocide by Israel is not at all like the US invasion of Vietnam, and it's insulting to Vietnam, the veterans then and the Palestinians now to pretend this issue is all about the US.
This "war", or concluding genocidal chapter, will be culturally relevant in Palestine and Israel. It will generationally define Palestine and Israel.
I hope it influences US foreign policy, but it isn't anything like Vietnam and to suggest so is incorrect and insulting.