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Earlier this month, Senator John McCain indicated that it was time for the United States to consider selling lethal weapons to Vietnam after a 30-year embargo. The recent maritime standoff between Beijing and Hanoi over Chinese oil exploration off the central coast of Vietnam exposed Hanoi’s many strategic weaknesses. Providing Vietnam with coast guard and maritime systems as a first step - and eventually radar, fighter aircraft and spare parts for leftover American military equipment - would bolster Hanoi’s strategic capabilities vis-a-vis China and give substance to the "comprehensive partnership" announced last year between Hanoi and Washington. But more than...

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, Oct 17 (AFP) - White House aspirant John Kerry is hailed by his Democratic Party as a Vietnam War hero but the senator is waging an uphill battle convincing 1.5 million Vietnamese Americans to vote for him ...

John Kerry lies about Iraq just as he did about Vietnam. Kerry is doing everything to paint a picture of an American defeat in Iraq, just like he did in Vietnam more than 30 years. As the US and South Vietnam were defeating the Viet cong in the battlefields, John Kerry and his traitor friends worked shamefully and cowardly to betray his own country to the communist cause. If Kerry wins this election, probably because God has stopped blessing this country.