Time for a Closer U.S.-Vietnam Relationship

Real Clear Defense ^ | March 14, 2016 | Robert C. Thomas

[billorites]

My excellent new laser printer came from Vietnam.

Feisty little bastards too.

[Farmer Dean]

Let’s wait until after the last Vietnam war vet dies.Anything sooner is an insult.

[dfwgator]

The best way to end the Communist regime in Hanoi is to boost trade. We have a lot more leverage with them because they fear the Chinese. Most of the generation that was around during the war have died off and the younger generation doesn’t really care about what happened.

[redcatcherb412]

Heck yeah, the last moron climbing the White House fence and trying to get into the White House in the middle of the night to obviously give the President the benefit of ‘charlies’ view of the use of mace as a president deterrent was a viet.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/14/man-charged-white-house-fence-breach-free-pending-trial/99153958/

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[Surrounded_too]

vets die off - Ain’t anytime soon. We don’t need them. They need us. I’d rather let China try to take them over. It will keep China busy and spread a little Schadenfreude around.

[maro]

He’s 26 years old and from California. Quite possibly not quite right mentally. Do you really think he was put up to it by the Viet Cong? Come on.

[BuffaloJack]

> Let’s wait until after the last Vietnam war vet dies. Anything sooner is an insult.

Speaking as a Vietnam War vet, nothing could be better than to have closer relations with Vietnam.

[Army Air Corps]

We have a lot more leverage with them because they fear the Chinese.

That is long-standing blood feud that goes back quite a way.

[Army Air Corps]

I’d rather let China try to take them over.

Look at the Sino-Vietnamese War.

[katana]

You are certainly entitled to your hard feelings, but there are still quite a few veterans of WWII and the Korean War around and that hasn't stopped us from doing business with Japan, Germany, and China. Considering the levels of horrific atrocities committed by all three against our forces there should be even worse feelings among veterans about our having let bygones be bygones with them. The Vietnamese very much want a friendly relationship to develop, politically and militarily because of their very uncomfortable proximity to an expansionist China.

We basically defaulted, never a battle lost, to the North because of incompetent and later treasonous leadership and conduct by a Democrat president and Congress, and a fifth column press. But when China tried to push her little neighbor around she got her nose well bloodied. And the reasons why it would be advantageous for us to develop a relationship with a country adjacent to China, with several excellent seaports on a thousand mile long coast line, ought to be pretty obvious. To the Vietnamese I've met overseas the war is ancient history and they crave a new relationship with us. Personally, I think having one with them is long overdue.

[BubbaJunebug]

I've made 63 trips to VN the past 20 plus years on business. Never had a bad experience other than mis dating a visa 😁 One time..just a short delay and a Benjamin solved the problem.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Viet Nam is one of those countries that won’t accept it’s deported US immigrants. Starting point.

[redcatcherb412]

Rumor has it that black pajamas and straw hat were found in the south lawn rice paddy :) /jk

Seriously though, old hatreds, and ones passed down generations never die. Asian communists seem to be long term haterz.

[maro]

The odds are his parents came here running away from the Communists.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Free South Vietnam and we can talk. Otherwise, NO.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Rumor has it that black pajamas and straw hat were found in the south lawn rice paddy :) /jk

Were they in John Kerry's size? :)

It isn't about Communists - WWII is not over in any of the countries Japan brutalized, and China is still mad at Britain over the Opium Wars. China is staging a five act drama over the THAAD deployment in South Korea and stirring up their native population with an anti-Korean propaganda campaign worthy of a CNN profile on Trump.

Vietnam would be a useful military ally in the region, and I think they would abandon the last vestiges of Communism far more quickly than China has if given the opening to do so. Have you seen Saigon, lately?

[Uncle Sam 911]

China? I believe you have mixed up WW 2 and Korea.

[Terry Mross]

I’m all for it if they’ll release the “Songbird’s” treason records.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

If he was Viet Cong he’d have tunneled under the fence, not hopped over it.