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Vietnam wins U.S. defense pledges
Reuters ^ | AUGUST 8, 2017 | Eric Beech and My Pham

Posted on 08/09/2017 6:46:10 PM PDT by gandalftb

Vietnam has won the promise of a visit from a U.S. aircraft carrier and deeper defense cooperation from the United States..

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich in Washington on Tuesday that a strong defense relationship was based on common interests that included freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.

A Vietnam flag flies as U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (L) hosts an honor cordon for Vietnamese Defense Minister Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich (R) at the Pentagon...

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: navy; secdefmattis; southchinasea; third100days; trumpasia; usnavy; vietnam
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To: ThanhPhero

Did Ho Chi Ming say that I rather smell French chit for 5 years than smell Chinese chit for 1000?


21 posted on 08/09/2017 7:36:29 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: dfwgator

Damn you had beat to the punch already.


22 posted on 08/09/2017 7:38:05 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: Meadow Muffin
Wasn't half that country our allies back in those days?

Those half assed lame brained Democrats made a win there impossible. Them and the Walter Cronkites of the world.

I wasn't there, I don't know what you know.

Thank You for your service.

23 posted on 08/09/2017 7:38:16 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: gandalftb

It is an excuse to get us closer to Kim.


24 posted on 08/09/2017 7:44:54 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And yet Adolph Hitler is synonymous with evil incarnate...


25 posted on 08/09/2017 7:50:30 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Meadow Muffin

Amen


26 posted on 08/09/2017 7:58:45 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: ThanhPhero

I agree.

I am American, but in have lived in Ho Chi Minh City for the last year.

Vietnam is a very interesting place. It is not like Thailand or Cambodia. Not like either one. At all.

It is communist, like China is. And they are definitely NOT pro China. Unlike every other country around here.

I did not originally intend to stay as long as I have. It is a very interesting place.

Think about visiting again. I am not saying you personally, but those reading.

This is not the country we were fighting in 50 years ago. That was two entire generations ago.

It is growing, and Americans seem to be rather highly regarded here.

Again it is not Thailand or Cambodia, but it is Vietnam.


27 posted on 08/09/2017 8:02:17 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

Playing in Vietnam while I ALONE am trying to bring back American manufacturing..?????

Why doesn’t ANYONE share my concern...??


28 posted on 08/09/2017 8:07:10 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gandalftb

“Mattis told his counterpart”
My Dad had a counterpart too. The commies sent him to e ‘re-education camp’.
Try to help Vietnam, get kicked in the teeth.


29 posted on 08/09/2017 8:15:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: gandalftb

And a deal like this means BIG defense purchases. Always.


30 posted on 08/09/2017 8:18:04 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: gandalftb

So we are acquiring another weak, liability, grifter military client.


31 posted on 08/09/2017 8:38:38 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: mrsmith

Hey, time passes, things change.
I did two tours. Rather them as allies than enemies at this point.
Ill never forgot the expression on my dad’s face when I told him I was going to work for an international Japanese corporation in 1975. 30 years after end of WWII.
I just put together a dinning room table for my mom with made in Vietnam stamped on the bottom.
47 years later. I think I had a similar expression to my dad’s. Just saying.


32 posted on 08/09/2017 8:48:06 PM PDT by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: cba123

JK, btw...

;)


33 posted on 08/09/2017 9:00:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: crabpott

Great story, and well told!


34 posted on 08/09/2017 9:06:35 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: gandalftb

Trump is playing the Vietnam card!


35 posted on 08/09/2017 9:07:43 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

.........I was stationed in Japan from August 69 to June 71 or just 24 years after Japan surrendered

Each day I was stationed there I worked along side, joked around with, wrestled with at times and just generally became great friends with two Japanese men. Approximately 25 years before they were both on Okinawa doing their best to kill Americans.

So, your right, times do change, and its some 43 years after hostilities ceased with Vietnam.

That said, some of my Vietnam buddies will never support this.


36 posted on 08/09/2017 9:08:20 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Cen-Tejas

My father was in the Battle for Okinawa.


37 posted on 08/09/2017 9:10:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

They also had a really good example early on after the war of how when taken to its natural extremes communism is quite lethal to its citizens - remember that the Vietnamese were the ones that had to stop the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to put an end to the Cambodian Genocide. They got a really good look at what can happen and decided they had a couple million reasons that they didn’t want to go down that path.


38 posted on 08/09/2017 10:01:21 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: gandalftb

NEVER!!


39 posted on 08/09/2017 10:09:37 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: dfwgator
It's also worth noting that the reason we got into the mess in Vietnam in the first place was because of Democrats and the French. Ho Chi Minh didn't go to the Communists first - he had fought on the Allied side in WW2. The historical record shows that he actually approached the United States and asked us to keep the French from reclaiming his country after fleeing the place in WW2. We basically told him to go screw himself because the Truman Administration wanted to make the French happy. As noted by Wikipedia: "In April 1945, Ho met with the OSS agent Archimedes Patti and offered to provide intelligence to the allies provided that he could have "a line of communication with the allies." The OSS agreed to this and later sent a military team of OSS members to train Ho's men and Ho himself was treated for malaria and dysentery by an OSS doctor. "Following the August Revolution (1945) organized by the Viet Minh, Ho became Chairman of the Provisional Government (Premier of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and issued a Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Although he convinced Emperor Bảo Đại to abdicate, his government was not recognized by any country. He repeatedly petitioned American President Harry S. Truman for support for Vietnamese independence, citing the Atlantic Charter, but Truman never responded." The whole mess could have been avoided and Vietnam could have been a staunch ally in the area - if only the Democrats hadn't screwed up and been doing their usual fanboi worship of everything French.
40 posted on 08/09/2017 10:09:52 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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