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The Times calls it "the latest salvo in an enduring hatred of communism that rivals that of Miami's Cuban exiles for Fidel Castro."

Does it ever occur to the airheads who write for the LA Times that maybe the Cubans of Miami and the Vietnamese of Garden Grove might just have good reason for their opposition to communism? Or that they might even know more about communism (having lived under it) than the staff of the LA Times?

I think I know the answer.

No the LA Times is made up of commies, they don't understand why anyone doesn't like them. They are gravely offended that there is an airport named after John Wayne and that Reagan still lives there. I'm told the best experience there is is to leave Reagan National in DC and arrive at John Wayne, patriotism all the way.

Does it ever occur to the airheads who write for the LA Times that maybe the Cubans of Miami and the Vietnamese of Garden Grove might just have good reason for their opposition to communism?

Not much of anything occurs to airheads. Here are the last three paragraphs of the L.A. Times article.

But some observers say the measure is misguided and does more harm than good.

"Vietnam is not a nice society," said Zachary Abuza, a professor at Simmons College in Boston who studies Southeast Asian politics. "But the community needs to understand they are operating in a new social, legal and political environment. They just have to get that ? and they don't.

"There's nothing we can do to stop the representatives of the communist government from traveling there. That's like saying that you're going to make Orange County, a predominantly Republican county, an anti-Democratic zone. It's absurd."