[VOA]

A year or so ago, the Nightly Business Report (a sane island on PBS) ran a segment on
the economy of Vietnam. The segment may have as well been subtitled:
"The War Is Over AND The Communists DIDN'T Win"

Vietnam won't turn into a colony of California soon, but change is on the way.
My naive guess the pace and extent of improvement depends on how religiously the younger
pups of the Communist regime stick to the old guards ideals.

As for Ky, he's a sad figure. He couldn't hold his country, stumbled despite help in
finding his way in the new land. While I "feel his exhaustion", his family/friends should
have coached him on the PR of making a trip back and told him he had to say the right words
and act certain wsys so as to not even be perceived as breaking faith with the past struggle.

I just hope the economics situation continues in the same direction...it'll just keep
progressively tipping the scales towards a country with more capitalists and fewer Communists.

[onedoug]

He couldn't hold his country....

??

That's a joke.

Right?