US President Biden visits Vietnam: Wartime foes to highest-level partners?

Al Jazeera ^ | 9 Sep 2023 9 Sep 2023 | By Kevin Doyle and Sen Nguyen

[ThanhPhero]

That’s about it.

[DoughtyOne]

Communist nations are their favorite.

Can’t believe he hasn’t gone down to Cuba to open the doors
with to them.

[Jacob Kell]

Not really. I figured that they helped buy the South Vietnamese people more time. Besides, had the Communists won earlier, things might have been worse.

[Yardstick]

Then Mr. Obama became President and as a Democrat he despised Việt Nam because VN was determined to be friends with America
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So true. Obama was out to punish any nation that had been friendly with America. It was clearly a principle of his foreign policy but it doesn’t seem to get mentioned a lot. I didn’t realize he was hard on Vietnam but that fits the pattern.

[Vaduz]

Indeed he never met a communist he didn’t like.

[cowboyusa]

My Dad wanted Vietnam to be a check against China during the Vietnam War.

[cowboyusa]

He opposed the war on those grounds.

[dfwgator]

Just as at one time China was a check against The Soviet Union.

[dfwgator]

We were there because we allowed the French to have their colonies. Never should have done that.

[jmacusa]

The Chinks couldn’t punch their way out of a wet paper bag.

Their military is in worse shape than Russia’s and the corruption makes the Russians look like pikers.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The Chinks couldn’t punch their way out of a wet paper bag.

I hope your right—but they gave us fits in Korea.

[jmacusa]

Only because MacArthur wasn’t allowed to go after them the way he wanted.

[dfwgator]

Only because MacArthur wasn’t allowed to go after them the way he wanted.

[jmacusa]

LOL! ‘’No respect I tell ya! My old man didn’t like me. He’d take me hunting and give me a five minute head start!’’