According to the US Special Operations Forces leader for the Asia-Pacific region, Rear Admiral Colin Kilrain, the US special forces are eagerly looking to expand military ties with Vietnam’s own forces, saying he’d met with his Vietnamese counterpart earlier this week.
Kilrain said the speed at which the ties are forged would depend on the comfort of the two governments on the matter, but he did say that the lifting of the US arms embargo on Vietnam “encouraged” both sides and had them ready to “take the next steps.”
The move is controversial within the US government primarily because of the long and bloody war the United States fought in Vietnam, against the same side which ultimately became the Communist government of present-day Vietnam.
Human rights advocates are less worried about the past, however, and more concerned that Obama is cozying up to Vietnam, a nation with considerable human rights problems, simply to needle China over those two nations’ maritime disputes.
Vietnam is making a huge mistake.
Gift bags for TPP signatories around the South China Sea.
We sent arms to Vietnam, which has a communist government, to piss off China
Will we be sending stones to Brunei, who are governed by Sharia law, for carrying out sentences on adulteresses?
beware of the military industrial complex. You are seeing up close and personal.
Expanding military ties with Vietnam? Who the f*ck are you. This is why our establishment are nothing but a globalist tyranny using our military to carry out their tyranny. We need to get back to a Republic.
its truly amazing to look at us relations when compared between vietnam and iran. considering the fact that one government killed 50,000 americans while the other killed zero.