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Gulf of Tonkin says what?
Back in college I read up on the actual incident. South Vietnamese special forces were conducting raids from US Navy ship to destroy North Vietnamese oil refineries. At one point the North Vietnamese pursued the fleeing SV forces, which became the Tonkin Gulf Incident that proceeded into the Vietnam war which killed millions of Vietnamese people and tens of thousands of Americans.
IIRC it's actually even worse, the main part of the incident was the "second" confrontation, which literally never happened because there was no enemy ship and there were no enemy soldiers. There was no second "incident". They just made it up lol.
This is why I have no respect for "don't give them a reason" mfs. As soon as your realize that people looking for an excuse will always find one, you come to recognize that shit for the intellectualized cowardice that it is.