Posted on 09/09/2001 4:37:21 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:38:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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...And Lance Sijan, and Nick Rowe, and Ted Guy and many others whose spittle said congressmen and senators are not fit to wear.
Observing their duplicitous conduct from the earthly realm is Captain Eugene "Red" McDaniel (USN-ret)
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With empathy toward all who fought in the Vietnam War, and with simultaneous utter contempt toward the backward Stalinist self-defeating decrepit yahoos who currently run the Hanoi government of Vietnam, I do believe that trade with that country is preferable to isolation.
Yes, the Hanoi government is corrupt and stupid - for example proposing "mandatory national service" to upgrade the highways that we Americans built 35 years ago - but other than that, it doesn't really practice "slavery" (unless our own military draft is also "slavery").
Even the corrupt Hanoi government does not to my knowledge execute dissenters, though it does harrass them and occasionally send them to jail (which is bad enough).
As for the low wages in Vietnam, well, that's a fact of all third-world manufacturing, and we'd be as accurate to say that of India, Nepal, Honduras, or the Phillipines, none of which are communist countries (but I dare you to find non-Chinese goods at your local WalMart).
So, yeah, the Hanoi government sucks, and is incredibly thick-headed, but we did leave an enormous amount of pro-American sentiment in at least the other half the country, and trade would do a great deal to encourage the move toward a more open and free Vietnam, eventually.
Those old farts in Hanoi cannot live forever, and their addle-brained view of the world is not shared by most Vietnamese. Vietnam is not Cuba, and it is not China. Foreign goods are everywhere and are desired.
As for the MIA's and POW's, I think we'll have to wait for a new generation of leaders, and just be patient. The old fogies in Hanoi still revel in their victories (which we must admit they did win at great cost), but still think they're fighting a war with the French and the United States. Sorry, but we will not get any satisfaction from them, ever. Better to cultivate the huge remaining good will in the south, and to expect (as it will) that the north will eventually follow.
You will eventually get your answers, but not from the 80-year-old generals and their cronies.
Unfortunately, this is what can be expected from these scoundrels who call Gary Condit their "colleague.". How soon we forget!
I'm a little surprised that so many vvets think this is something new. It's been on the table for quite awhile now.
It was the United States that left their own behind. And now, the US who's gone back to find who we may....
STay well - Yorktown
I hate hearing about this trade with Viet Nam. OH man what is happening with America anyway.
But I sure do like to see you. You know I saved that adorable graphic of the snow globe to my photo point albums. heh heh I love it so much.
Our Viet Nam Vets were treated to a chemical that effected their lives AFTER they came back home....
Our Government has made NO REAL EFFORT to bring so many LEFT Behind back HOME !!!!!!!
And NOW ????? NOW our government is saying they want to allow normal trade relations with Viet Nam WITHOUT full account of POW/MIA's>
UNACCEPTABLE!
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