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[quote]Pham Binh Minh, whose father fought to force the United States out of Vietnam, is working fervently to elevate the interest and involvement of his country’s former enemy.
Vietnam wants a U.S. presence for economic reasons and as a balance to China, the regional superpower. Mr. Minh is the new foreign minister; his father was part of Ho Chi Minh’s Communist regime during the bitter conflict of the 1960s and 1970s; later, he was foreign minister when Vietnam clashed with China.
“One cannot imagine how fast the relationship between the United States and Vietnam has developed,â€
Vietnam Embraces an Old Enemy
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Yeah, I was wikilinking and read a bit about the history of Vietnam. Much greater appreciation of why they fought with such tenacity; the US was just another face in a long line of aggressors.
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They were fighting before we got there. They fought while we were there. They fought after we left. All our military might was nothing but another chapter in the half-century long War of Indochina.
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