[TigerLikesRooster]

While Rummy gushing over India while dissing China hard, one of his men tried to "enhance enhancing friendship and mutual understanding between the two armies." (U.S. and Viet Nam)

Pentagon is doing its own diplomacy now.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Brilliant]

I guaranty you that Vietnam is not trying to encircle China. It is merely trying to avoid being gobbled up by it.

The more you think about it, the more it looks like this may be the final shoe to fall in the Vietnam War.

[wolfpat]

I really want to know what you think about this.

[Ramonan]

Why would you want to line yourself up with someone that you had beat--albeit with help from the Media, McCain, Kerry and Congress?

[JZelle]

Why don't we just send Kerry, he's pretty tight with those guys.

[ken21]

that's ironic, after the media leftists turned this country against the vietnam war. remember, the chicoms did invade vietnam not that long ago.

and, now i'm supposed to be concerned about north vietnam's security?

[SevenofNine]

OH MAN really

Question look like to me we going reform relatioins with Vietnam

MAN Rummy is poker player Tiger

[AmericanInTokyo]

If we can become allies with Japan, whom we kicked their collective butts when they were in the Teikoku Imperial Japan "Tenno Heika, Banzai!!" mode, and work it out with them some 50-60 years later, then certainly we can become allies with Vietnam (to a lesser extent), some thirty years later after they kicked our butts out of Vietnam. You win some you lose some, history rolls on.

How to explain a US military alliance in the early 21st century with Hanoi itself, the dreaded DRV, to all those poor names on The Wall sent to stop "Cong San Chu Nghia". It's almost like WE should demand Hanoi pay US reparations to our dead's families, for our fighting their communism which they have moved to abandon day by day since 1975, as they themselves have seen 'what works'. Oh, Irony of Ironies.

If I'd have my druthers, they would scrap one party Viet-Communism once and for all, as a precondition, and give total access to finding any MIAs and POWs.

We have no permanent Friends. We have no permanant Enemies.

We only have Permanant American Interests. Other than that, anything at all to screw up Red China in the region I welcome, long-term.

[moatilliatta]

Not more of this "my enemy's enemy is my friend" business. I hope further democratisation of Vietnam is a condition of any future alliance.