Many creases to iron out in Vietnam-US ties

Many creases to iron out in Vietnam-US ties

(EXCERPT) Despite a landmark visit by Vietnam's top defence official
to Washington, political, strategic and trade differences remain, by
Lee Kim Chew

KEEN to foster closer ties with Vietnam, US Defence Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld rolled out the red carpet for his Vietnamese counterpart Pham
Van Tra this week, but don't expect too much anytime soon.

Even if he wants to speed things up, the Vietnamese will move
cautiously. It took them three years to reciprocate former Defence
Secretary William Cohen's trip to Hanoi.

Lieutenant-General Tra's visit to the Pentagon, the first by a
Vietnamese military chief since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975,
signals a calculated change in p...

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US naval chiefs have made no secret of their desire to get a foothold in
their former deep sea port-of-call in Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay.
>>>

Because bases elsewhere in Southeast Asia is located outside of U.S's
strategic point(The South China Sea), or they are in muslim countries such
as the phillipine where sentiment against american's present is strong and
the risk of a major terrorist attack outweighted the benefit of U.S's
projected power. Moreover, bases elsewhere in SouthEast Asia are located
close or on top of major volcano and plate boundary, which subjected to
eruption and frequent earthquake. In addition, the governments where these
bases are located are unstable. Indonesia just declared marshal law on
aceh. There was another bombing in the phillipine, and several government
ministers just called it quit. Malaysia said the jews rule the world from
the United States. Without Vietnam letting the U.S rent its base at Cam
Ranh, U. S's projected power will be zero. Without a present of a U.S
military base in the region, China will continue to expand its naval
ambition further against the phillipine. Thus, forcing many SouthEast Asian
countries to begin an arms race, which is already happening. A major arms
race will take away the neccesary resources to combat poverty which is the
origin of terrorism.

Moreover, U.S military present in the South China Sea, especially Vietnam
will delay the prospect of China's ambition to unite Taiwan by a military
invasion. The prospect of American naval carriers and military forces in
the South China Sea will force China to split its massive concentration of
forces in the Taiwan Straight and deploys half of the forces in the South
China Sea. Thus, this weaken the invasion forces facing Taiwan, and delay or
decrease the destructiveness of cross straight invasion by China.

Furthermore, U.S military present at Vietnam's cam ranh naval base will
prevent another incident such as the ramming of the EP-3 spy plan off the
coast Hainan island that resulted in a diplomat standoff between China and
the United States. The United States still flies spy mission to
electronically dropping off the Chinese coast. Chances are, another ramming
incident would take place. However, with U.S military present at cam ranh,
the U.S military can take over a russian built electronic dropping station
built on the high mountain above cam ranh to electronically dropping on
anything coming out of southern china and all of SouthEast Asia terrorist
communication.

These were all being considered by the pentagon just after september-11.
And how the hell can the Vietnamese boat people hope to gain U.S's support
to fight for a democratic Vietnam with the huge important role Vietnamese
communist playing with U.S 's security interest in SouthEast Asia? The
United States does not interested to support some sort of political process
that could unravel itself to an already fragile region. The last time U.S
supported a political process there, its leaderships were corrupted, whose
people really interested in pocket themselves in billions of dollars of U.S
aids. Moreover, those corrupted and incompetence leaderships were more
interested in staging coup than building a prosper and democratic vietnam.
And the same corrupted people are now begging for U.S support for something
they had squandered and blundered. They should blame themselves for failing
the Vietnamese people, not the Vietnamese communist or the United States.

Philippines are NOT Muslim Country. Philippines is Catholic Country.
Fucking idiot you.

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Don Thompson

Ex ROMAD


"unknown" wrote in message
news:ErKdnSfDKZiASCiiRVn-uA@comcast.com...
> >>>
> US naval chiefs have made no secret of their desire to get a foothold in
> their former deep sea port-of-call in Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay.
> >>>
>
> Because bases elsewhere in Southeast Asia is located outside of U.S's
> strategic point(The South China Sea), or they are in muslim countries such
> as the phillipine

>>>>
Philippines are NOT Muslim Country. Philippines is Catholic Country.
Fucking idiot you.
>>>>

Yes, the Philippine is Catholic country, but more than a quarter of its
popolation in Southern Philippine are Muslims. They want a separate and
independent state from the Philippine government. "Fucking idiot you"
(lol). When did the wise, the logical, righteous, democratic, anti evil
communist Don Thompson give way to madness and vulgar?