[Meadow Muffin]

Having had the pleasure of being in country from 66 - 67, my thoughts of Vietnam as an ally is a difficult pill to contemplate swallowing.

[ThanhPhero]

You should visit the country. This old soldier did that in 2003 and just keeps going back. It is a fine place to vacation and the people love Americans. You would be surprised at what the old soldiers from the other side have to say about what was right and wrong about that war. If you have any thought about seeing what has become of the country you fought in, you should go and see. Try to remember we did not fight the Vietnamese.

We fought the Communists. They learned some lessons from their failed collectivization efforts. Vietnamese, even Communists are nothing if not practical. Collectivization failed and they ditched it. They are still in charge but they are not real Communists any more. They more resemble Mafia in Sicily or 1950s New York City or Havana with an awareness that Viet Nam must become rich and thus capitalist in order to avoid becoming a province of China. You can't do that by toadying to China. They need America and America needs them. Even Clinton understood that. Obama was put off by the Americophilia of Viet Nam and relations retrogressed.

[Radix]

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.

[easternsky]

Amen