Posted on 05/23/2016 10:56:23 AM PDT by Innovative
HANOI, Vietnam — The United States is rescinding a decades-old ban on sales of lethal military equipment to Vietnam, President Obama announced at a news conference in Hanoi on Monday, ending one of the last legal vestiges of the Vietnam War.
“The decision to lift the ban was not based on China or any other considerations,” he said, with the Vietnamese president, Tran Dai Quang, standing stiffly by his side. “It was based on our desire to complete what has been a lengthy process of moving toward normalization with Vietnam.”
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NORKS are next.
“What’s the big deal? They only killed 55,000 of our boys”
And left John F Kerry horribly disfigured
Obama is hoping to replace the old Hanoi Jane on pinup calendars in Vietnam.
Good. The Vietnamese hate the Chinese with an abiding passion.
Commercial airplane is FAR different that weapons.
Yes, but it’s more fun to dramatize righteous indignation.
Actually, there were 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War.
Surely, Obama is aware that he owes his Presidency to the Vietnamese Communists.
During the Vietnam War, the 1968 Tet Offensive resulted in the annihilation of Viet Cong units throughout South Vietnam and was a disaster for the Communist insurgency; it never recovered from its loses. This Tet Offensive was a coordinated “Do or Die” attack by every Viet Cong unit in South Vietnam on the night of January 30 and the morning of January 31, 1968 that simultaneously struck every South Vietnamese City, village, and military installation in an attempt to win the war in one country wide attack; they failed and they paid the price for their failure; they died.
The war was carried on after Tet 1968 by invading North Vietnamese, and North Vietnam could never move sufficient troops down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to ever hope to defeat the United States effort in South Vietnam, so they resorted to another Communist tactic; they lied.
1968 was a Presidential Election year in the United States, and the Communist Party USA attempted to use the Tet Offensive to influence the election by claiming it was a Communist victory and the war was lost. This American Communist Party organized an anti-war movement and assembled enough strength through this movement to seize control of the Democrat Party that summer during the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago.
These Communists attempted to nominate a Presidential candidate who would end the war and they failed, but the Communist Party USA still retained control of the Democrat Party, and this Party managed to elect enough Leftists to Congress to cut funding for the Vietnam War and the war was then lost, so in this way the 1968 Tet Offensive was indeed a Communist victory.
After using the Tet Offensive to gain control of the Democrat Party, the Communist Party USA never lost control of the Democrat Party, and when a few decades later they managed to elect an avowed Marxist Communist, Barack Hussein Obama, to the Presidency of the United States, it made the 1968 Tet Offensive the greatest Communist victory of all times.
As a Vietnam vet I have VERY mixed feelings about Obama’s motives in this case.
But I also know Vietnamese hatred of China goes back more than 1,000 years to a Chinese occupation of Vietnam that lasted 1,000 years before that.
Vietnam regards the Paracel & Spratly islands as theirs. Might as well make things dicey for Beijing as the Dragon learns how to swim.
Meanwhile Japan has cut off its younger generations from knowledge of its atrocities in Asia 1937-1945. But in China those memories are very much alive.
I do wonder what communist Vietnam will have to offer in foreign exchange to buy all these new toys.
So King Hussein can do this without Kongress?????
Dear Leader embracing what he loves.
“...now we will sell weapons to Vietnam...”
No, we’ll probably GIVE arms to Vietnam...
58,220 men and women of America killed in Vietnam......
Well, dammit, its ok for them to buy guns but he wants to restrict our purchases!
FUBO!
Is that not the most ridiculous picture ever??? Not only was he stupid enough to have the weapon pointed at his forehead, he actually never served one day in a combat unit...He was a military journalist....This was a staged photo...A staged STUPID photo, at that....
Aside from the fact that they are a communist country, I thought this was done long ago. I’m more concerned or upset with the latest apology tour and pictures posing in front of Ho Chi Min and so forth.
We never embargoed arms from USSR or China either. Much to the frustration of those of us trying to fight the NVA.
TC
Any arms company that sells to them ought to be boycotted.
They all need to be aware of that.
United States casualties in Vietnam
58,307 dead; 303,644 wounded
— Wikipedia
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