Posted on 04/02/2007 1:19:49 AM PDT by Bloc8406
You can dance around the issue all you like but when you have seen as many dead Marines as I have;
giving the VN Commies a pass is not on my scorecard.
Since you either missed my previous point or refused to recognize it, I shall repeat it.
Until Viet Nam makes a FULL ACCOUNTING of ALL American MIA’S & POW’S; there NEVER should have been any American companies allowed to operate there. Point, Game, Set, Match!
‘This is not the same as Japan, and you know it. There is no similarity.’
I served in DaNang in 1968-69-70.
I ended up going back to VN in 1995 to work (Saigon).
After leaving to return to the U.S., I went back to see my girlfriend twice per year from ‘97 - 2004.
I know a lot about VN and the people. I know a lot about the government.
What you hate is the government - I agree, the government (the commies) suck. The people are great. The government comprises two per cent of the population.
Do you really want to hate and penalize 98 per cent of the Vietnamese people for a long ago war? If so, your heart is as black as the enemies you hate.
“You can dance around the issue all you like...”
See my post to Judith Anne
There is no similarity. Furthermore, you have put words in my mouth that were not there:
Do you really want to hate and penalize 98 per cent of the Vietnamese people for a long ago war? If so, your heart is as black as the enemies you hate.
Are there still religious prisoners in VietNam? Do you know THAT much about the country?
“Are there still religious prisoners in VietNam? Do you know THAT much about the country?”
Of course there are still religious prisoners in VN. Further, severe repression of religious groups in the Central Highlands continues to this day and, in a nutshell, it is courageous and dangerous to practice non-Government supported churches. It’s also not healthy to be a Montagnard or a Caucasian making public statements in opposition to the police or the government.
It’s the government, not the people, doing this. It’s the two per cent of the population, not the remaining 98%.
What is your point, anyway?
You seem to be having trouble tracking. My point is and always has been that postwar VietNam is very unlike postwar Japan. Relates to your post 19.
Just quit trying to horn in on grownups conversation and go back to DU.
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