Some recent economic freedoms granted by a communist party that controls all elections.
The President's visit should remind us of the true lessons of Vietnam:
1. Democrats will, without remorse, turn their backs on an ally, condemn him to live under tyrants and suffer genocide.
2. A faithless, disloyal soldier like Kerry can become a US Senator and dupe almost half the country in electing him to the highest office in the land.
3. That without ever getting a full accounting of our POWs, a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (co-chaired by Kerry) voted to close the issue forever, opening the way for Vietnam to get most-favored nation status (so US companies could eventually manufacture running shoes and iPods on the cheap by slave labor.)
4. That Americans are stupid enough to hand the Congress to the party that will repeat the same mistakes once again with Iraq.