Give me a f'in break.
Classy reply. He's right - though on the arms bit, it's to opressively control their people and neighbors right now. Given the chance, the'll get to the rest of us later.
People need to break out of their price obsession and take a look at what they are supporting with their purchases. It's like an established company with idiot managers, who buy critical elements from upstart competitors rather develop things on their own. In the short term they're covered, but they're sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
(And that's not even looking at the fact that the Vietnamese communists didn't want to help us with our dead and MIA. They tried to extort money from us to do this, and we refused.)