He didn’t hear about that little war we had with the NVA and Viet Cong?
so VIetNam is very much like Obama’s Transformed America, eh?
Idiot. (Kelly, not you Olog)
Stupid Congressman. But what’s new in that.
I fought in Vietnam, and went back with my daughter in 2000. I found Saigon, in all but name, a free enterprise zone. Lots of private capital, lots of private investment.
In the Danang area things seemed a bit more restrictive, but still open to entrepreneurship.
It wasn’t until we got to Hanoi that we definitely felt we were in an authoritarian regime. But it suits is people; colder, except for souvenir sellers. Not so open to, nor as curious and as friendly to Americans as were the cases further south.
In other words, they seemed like three distinctly different governing structures, which, if one has studied Vietnamese history, has more or less always been the case.
How can you possible have “free trade” with an unfree nation of state-controlled enterprises?
After a famine caused by communist policies killed a lot of people, they reformed their policies, and McCain helped Clinton change the ban on business years ago. .
the US Navy even has visited there.
Hard to follow ... is he expressing awe that the State Dept actually used the C-word, which amazes me too, or is that dumb?