ANALYTICAL LENSES AS GUIDES FOR TWO RELATED LEARNING AREAS:
Building Lesson Plans
Learning Objective:
1. OVERCOMING THE PERVASIVE FALSE CLAIM THAT HIDES THE 1865–1954 US BUSINESS IN VIET NAM, THAT WAS ENABLED BY FORCE. THE HIDING MISLEADS VOTERS TO UNWITTINGLY SUPPORT SIMILAR FOREIGN POLICY IN MANY NATIONS & AREAS
2. DISCUSSING HOW TO OVERCOME THE GOV’T HAVING "DITCHED” THE PUBLIC FROM KNOWING REAL FACTS ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY. Should a Voter Facts Commission be set up? Would it be better to have Congress present to the public, weekly briefings of “real facts” on foreign policy areas?
Method for Teachers. For high school and college curriculum. To identify the real reason for the US-Viet Nam War, and a false claim hiding it, a variety of Analytical Lenses are shown below.
Primary resources: Roesch, B. (2025). Foreign Policy Fault 1619–2024, with US in Viet Nam 1865–1975 .
Roesch, B. (2020).Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise : 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam
US consul reports filed from Viet Nam 1889–1954
Learning Objective 1: Build analytical skills in reading for meaning.
Learning Objective 2: Identify the false claim and the real reason for US-Viet Nam War.
False Claim. The false claim says the US entered Viet Nam in 1954, presented as for a noble purpose to fight communism. But that hides the real reason.
Real Reason. An 1865–1954 period of US business expansion & resource use in Viet Nam, was enabled by French invasion violence. In 1954, the French invasion fell in defeat to Viet Nam. So, by January 1955, US leaders attacked, using a proxy force, for the purpose of seizing control to continue the early period of business and resource use by force. Resources. US consul reports filed from Viet Nam 1889–1954
Learning Objective: Understand the extent of the false claim and its effect on US voters. The false claim is pervasive in the US. It is in books, high school curriculum, colleges, universities, Youtube videos, and Wikipedia.
The false claim misleads virtually the entire US public to believe the ludicrously false statement that a country called “North Vietnam” existed. Supposedly the US fought it. But no such country ever existed.
Class activity. Examine various history books available in homes, libraries, on Kindle.
Examine Youtube videos and Wikipedia on the origin ot the US-Viet Nam War.
Beliving the false claim and thus supporting a false foreign policy into today, many people in the US exhibit what Un-American (2020), by Erik Edstrom, US veteran of Afghanistan combat, calls "lobotomized patriotism,"
FOR ONGOING LESSON PLANS, A TEACHER CURRICULUM GUIDE
Teacher objective. To build more lesson plans using the Analytical Lenses and Facts. I, tn this author’s 2025 book, these lenses and facts appear in detail on the false claim and its effect through 2024, . Origin of the false claim appears in the 2020 book.
The Analytical Lenses for teaches include: Three-step Analysis for any nation or area (1) deletes thein this author’s 2025 book false claim of noble purpose in Viet Nam, thus ending its presumption that foreign policy today is noble, (2) illuminates real facts in to uncover the real US purpose, and (3) identifies Signature Techniques used against other nations, showing the common plan.
Each of 21 Facts in Chapter 8 individually makes it more likely that the real reason for the US-Viet Nam war was as stated above: US leaders attacked trying to continue the hidden early decades of business. Together, the 21 Facts are overwhelming evidence of that real reason.
Analytical Lens: A set of 21 Facts, with each individual fact being proof of the hidden, real reason for the US-Viet Nam War and its operation as the nucleus of false foreign policy today. Together, the 21 Facts provide overwhelming proof.
Among these 21 Facts, some representative ones are listed here. Teachers and groups discussing these matters may refer to this author’s two books. For the connection today, his second book, Foreign Policy Fault . . ., presents many details that apply the Facts and Analytical Lenses. And, the author is available for consultation at roeschbd@gmail.com.
1. Starting in 1619, pre-US and US leaders built an economy partly depending on business expansion and use of resources by force, often gainst non-white people. This process has continued unabated during 1619–2024. Stolen from their lives in Africa, the first black slaves arrived in the US in 1619. By late in that century, a statute allowed dismemberment of a slave upon proper showing to the authorities. Brutality continued, with cotton picked by slaves becoming a key commodity in world trade that supported the US Industrial Revolution. But after the US Civil War, (a) from 18965 onward, brutality continued against black US citizens and (b) the US entered Viet Nam in 1865, enabled by brutality. The parallel pursuit of business expansion and use of resources abroad and in the US against non0white people has continued through 2024. Among many examples, the US military was expelled in 2024 from Niger for providing “security” for France as it paid 1/250th the value of uranium.
2. During the period 1865–1954, US businesses conducted business expansion and resource use in Viet Nam, enabled by French invasion murder. That activity amounted to theft, enabled by force. From 1889 onward, US consuls in Viet Nam sent regular reports to the US. Thousands of those reports have lain silent in the US National Archives. They are 100 percent proof of the occurrence of that hidden, early period. It was part of the process started in 1619.
3. In 1945, US leaders developed a lengthy series of reports targeting Viet Nam to be attacked to continue “Colonial Relationships” in a worldwide US system. Viet Nam was made a prime example for other nations not to try and break out of that system. This system was set up during 1939–45, 100 men of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) prepared, for the State Department, 682 reports and memos on economic control. The CFR consisted mostly of corporation people, many involved in decades of imperial resource control.
4. Smoking guns. A 1943 smoking gun CFR memorandum calls to seize Viet Nam post-WWII to resume "Colonial Relationships."
A 1940 smoking gun memorandum calls "to secure the limitation of any exercise of sovereignty" where there is a threat to US "security and economic prosperity." [A claim to “American Exceptionalism” before the phrase was invented!]
5. “Ditched.” In the 1940s, CFR and State people said the whole project of the 682 papers would be “ditched” if the public found out that State was working with an outside group. So, they did not tell the public. To this day, US leaders make a false claim that hides the early business by force, the reports on attacking Viet Nam to keep it in “Colonial Relationships,” and the attack to make Viet Nam a prime example for other countries not to break ut of the US leaders’ system.
6. During 1953–54, US leaders started their coup attempt in Viet Nam and also did three coups against Brazil, Iran, Guatemala. Each was done to seize advantage for US corporations. Together, they are strong evidence that that was the real purpose of US foreign policy.
7. The business expansion by force motive originated before US leaders opposed communism, and it never abated. Fifty years before the 1917 Revolution in Russia, US business entered Viet Nan, enabled by brutality. US ships took rice, and by the 1880s Viet Nam suffered widespread malnutrition. The damage was known to US officials.
Being part of the method that started in 1619, the business in Viet Nam, enabled by violence, was a deep-seated method.
From the 1919 denial at Versailles of Viet Nam’s freedom, US leaders including John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles displayed open intent to keep Viet Nam as a colony, despite its repeated requests to end the invasion and have fair trade. Into the 1950s, the brothers persisted in the business expansion by force in Viet Nam. And, they represented Standard Oil’s Nelson Rockefeller. Standard Oil entered Viet Nam in the 1880s.
8 Pursuing “limitation of any exercise of sovereignty” where there is a threat to US “security and economic prosperity,” the NSC has done 100-plus coups, invasions, and destabilizations during 1945–2024. The total includes 26 or more coups and attempted coups during the 1945–75 US-Viet Nam War period. See, for example, coup list on William Blum webpage. An obvious part of those actions was the US-Viet Nam War.
9. Upon the US defeat in 1975, the public did not know of the early imperial period, so the public did not blame US leaders for attacking to continue it in the Real Reason for the US-Viet Nam War. So, the NSC continued a Signature Technique of pursuing control for business expansion and access to resources, often by force. US leaders have backed coups in Africa but have “ditched” the US public from the facts. And—documented by authoritative US diplomats, writers, and academics—US leaders destabilized Eastern Europe after 1991 by extending NATO, then by backing two coups in Ukraine leading to civil war and the current Russian invasion. While Russia’s invasion is criminal, US leaders did the destabilization.
For Public to Regain Role of Guiding General Direction of Foreign Policy
Before World War II, the public participated in national debates on foreign policy. But In the 1940s, US leaders—setting up to attack Viet Nam as the prime example in a worldwide plan for economic control—said: “the whole plan would be ‘ditched’ if it became generally known that the State Department is working in collaboration with any outside group.” The public has remained “ditched” from its democratic role of guiding the general direction of foreign policy. Roesch, Brian D.. Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise: 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam, Chapter 17, Kindle Locations 1956–1972; Foreign Policy Fault Line, p. 147 (publication late April or early May 2025)
To regain the guidance role, voters could require the government to provide ample, truthful facts on foreign policy events and issues. This would require the government to partner with the public, rather than preventing the people from knowing. The public could set up, for example, a Voter Facts Commission. It could, for example, consist of five commissioners elected in the most recent presidential election, one from each of the five political parties whose members cast the most votes for president. Each commissioner would have an office and staff. Each commissioner would prepare a written report on foreign and domestic policy issues. From the five reports, the Commission would prepare and publish a written report for the public. Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise: 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam, pp. xxci, 42728, Kindle Locations 253, 4918–4984.
The Commission could require the government to provide information of the depth shown in Chapter 8 of Foreign Policy Fault Line. It demonstrates the real facts that show the real US purpose in nine nations and areas of ongoing foreign policy matters. Examples are Gaza, Africa, and climate change threatening future death to today’s young children.
Discussion Question. Should the Commission report provide equal space for each commissioner’s views? What are the pros and cons of equal space, versus more space for views of commissioners of the two major political parties, and less space for commissioners of the other three parties?
Discussion Question. Rather than a Voter Facts Commission, should voters require the U.S. Congress to provide the public with regular briefings of facts of the same depth, discussed above, that a Voter Facts Commission could require? Issues to discuss include:
How much control do voters have over their Congressional representatives?
How much are Congressional representatives responsive to major corporate donors, even as some major corporations have been behind the false foreign policy?
Should views of smaller political parties be presented> What about smaller parties that comment on life-and-death issues like global warming’s impending future death to increasingly higher numbers of today’s children, an issue on which the major political parties have reached political compromise even as no compromise is made by Nature as the global warming emergency increases?