[2ndDivisionVet]

Eventually, all eyes are opened. I expect Cuba to do the same after the Castro brothers are in Hell.

[Olog-hai]

So Vietnamese Communists are calling for more Communism? After all, democracy is the road to socialism, and the goal of socialism is communism.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Imagine the poor guys in hue, Da Nang, the Ia Drang and Khe Sanh knowing this in advance some 50 years ago. Sheesh

[GeronL]

and whose orbit will they join?

[tumblindice]

“Vietnam wants democracy”

1954, Geneva Peace accords call for free elections.
Seventy years later, Vietnam finally agrees.

All that time and all those lives and all that loss.

I bet the First Lady that I could get you to say more than two words, Mr. President!

“You lose.” Calvin Coolidge

[taxcontrol]

Just .... WOW.

I’m not even sure of what to say.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Any move away from China could provide an opening for the U.S. to serve as an economic and security hedge against Chinese influence in Vietnam ....

So we can betray them again?

[dfwgator]

“You fools! Don’t you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don’t you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life.” - Ho Chi Minh

[Pollster1]

I wish the communists running our Democrat party were as smart as the communists running Vietnam’s government.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Any move away from China could provide an opening for the U.S. to serve as an economic and security hedge

They can count on ol' Zippy to provide a security hedge against China. Yep. They sure can.

The Chicago Tribune is funny.

[Freeport]

That, my friends, is a political earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale!

[MosesKnows]

They are willing to act

A Communist nation is a Communist nation because the government is Communist, not the people.

During the reign of the Soviet Union, there were communist countries throughout Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Communist countries in the twentieth century included Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Benin, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Congo, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ethiopia, Hungary, Mongolia, Mozambique, Poland, Romania, Somalia, South Yemen, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.

Today, there are only five communist governments in the world.

North Korea - 1948
China - 1949
Cuba - 1961
Laos - 1975
Vietnam - 1976

America can point with some pride that the spread of Communism ended with Vietnam.

[windcliff]

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