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.)
I said nothing of the kind. My comment meant only that the Viet Namese government deserves no support from the US. Nothing more. Anyone on these pages should know how I feel about Communists and their detestable cohorts in VN, Laos, Cambot and Burma. I was there in the 1950s, so no one needs to tell me what happened to these people.