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With Vietnam hosting (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) in November, this is a critical window of opportunity. Vietnam cannot afford to let it slip.


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CARL THAYER For Vietnam to step forward [on security cooperation], they have to step forward in two directions. ...
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JOHN PODESTA said Jones, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, ''so I put it on every morning. I just feel tha...
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ANDREW FEINBERG What appears to be clear is that he suffered in part of a result from his experience in Vietnam.
ABE BONOWITZ We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD M. NIXON America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb...
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JOHN MCCAIN I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of ...
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all betw...
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SENATOR JOHN KERRY It's like Vietnam all over again, and I opposed that too.
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LARS VON TRIER These were sent to places such as Cambodia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia...
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