Posted on 06/21/2005 6:05:01 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai arrived here Tuesday as the first leader of a united Vietnam to visit the United States, a trip marked by protesters outside the White House and a decidedly muted reception inside.
It was a strikingly different occasion from the day when Bill Clinton made the first presidential trip to Vietnam five years ago, placing a coda on one of the most emotionally scarring wars in American history and opening a new start with the country. Then, tens of thousands of Vietnamese lined the streets to greet him.
The crowds outside the White House were far smaller and were made up in good part of Vietnamese-Americans, who focused on complaints about Vietnam's human rights record...
The coolness was a reflection, several American officials said, of the administration's uncertainty over how to deal with a government that is looking for a great leap in its links to the United States but has proved unwilling to loosen political control at home.
Vietnam's development model appears to be China: economic openness married with strict crackdowns on dissenters who threaten the central authority. It is a country to which Mr. Bush has not devoted much energy, though he plans to visit next year for an Asian summit meeting, he said Tuesday.
In the meantime, the dialogue seemed to replay the words of 2000, during Mr. Clinton's four-day visit. "We believe that America finds in Vietnam a potential cooperation partner," Mr. Khai said in the Oval Office. "We have a population of 80 million people, which means a huge market for American businesses. And these people are also very hard working, creative and dynamic."
The United States is now Vietnam's largest trading partner, doing $6.1 billion in business last year, according to the State Department...
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>>> Take it from a Noahide who is credible, and who is not trying to "abolish Christmas," as you allege.
So you find Noahide a solid source too?
I will ignore your posts too.
I allege nothing. He sells flyers for $0.15 per flier. and 10 cents if you're a khazar jew for his campaign to abolish X-mas.
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==...may as well toss this into the thread
What are you talking about!!! That's the most important link you have contributed to this thread. Please, post that link far and wide...make as much hay out of it as possible. The continuing Soviets that currently occupy and oppress Russia ARE OUR ENEMY...and so is are the Vietnamese Communists. Why is that so hard for conservatives to understand???!!!
==Communist officials like each other, no matter what country they are in.
I don't know about like...but they certainly all belong to the same criminal organization.
Duh.
==Duh.
Thanks...I think :o)
I quoted your source. Not my words, not my flyers.
If these words are a problem, then maybe familyop and BringBackMyHUAC should not be posting from the Noahide Movement.
Wow...that one went right over my head. Can you post some links. Thanks--HUAC
==If these words are a problem, then maybe familyop and BringBackMyHUAC should not be posting from the Noahide Movement.
Did you pick up that word (Khazar) from Noahides? I've never heard them use such a word. If you are correct, then this bears some looking into. Please provide documentary links so we can get to the bottom of this. Thanks.
Sure did.
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*****Stuff the Talmudvision "Preachers" won't tell the braindeadgoy.
familyop; BringBackMyHUAC
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Actually the Chinese hate it. The Chinese have nearly 300,000 men along the border with Vietnam that are always in a combat configuration that corresponds to the level we keep our 38,000 men in Korea. Thats a huge and very expensive effort. Interestingly the Vietnamese forces on the south side of the border are very modest. CLearly the CHinese fear Vietnam.
China and the Indo-Chinese have an automatic antipathy that goes back thousands of years and communism or no a collective racial memories are tough to overcome with a few slogans.
What is happening is similar to the way we hemmed in the SOviets in the 50's. Afghanistan, Pakistan (sort of), India, and Japan have already more or less signed on to the concept. Add in Russian fears of the Chinese and a reapproachment with the Vietnamese makes sense.
Still although I understand it, I don't like it. I served three tours in Nam and lost many friends to the commies there. That war would have turned out differently if the Durbin's and Hillary's of that time hadn't been there to side with the communists. Its probably a sound strategy and the main point is to defend freedom with the best tools available.
Communism means slave labor for the suits that run DC.
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