[Vnbiz] US president election under the eye of a vietnamese

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear brother Ad,

You ask: "If Vietnam likes Marx and Castro (even if only publicly), how good
can McCain ultimately be for Vietnam?"

I think the premise of your question is questionable :-)  It is like "If I
like Hillary and you don't like Hillary, can you and I like each other."  Of
course we can like each other (unless you say you can't :-) .  The two parts
of the question may not have any relationship at all.
But here is McCain and Vietnam.  Since I worked on US-Vietnam relationship
in 1989, McCain has been the earliest Senator to support US-Vietnam
relationship, at a time when almost the entire US government was still
against such relationship.  Does that kind of record say something?

BTW, around 1992 or so, I wrote a newspaper article on overseas Vietnamese
press, against political violence in the Vietnamese community and sent
to Senator McCain an English translation of that.  He sent me a nice
thank-you letter (but I lost his letter a long time ago).

Have a great day, Ad.

Hoanh

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com> wrote:

> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
> Mo' breakin' McCain news:
>
> McCain hopes Castro to "meet Marx soon"<http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2257627420080222?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&sp=true>
> Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:18am EST
> By Jason Szep
>
> INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John McCain
> suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would
> die soon and said Castro's brother will be a worse leader.
>
> "I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon," McCain told a
> town-hall style meeting of about 150 people, referring to communist
> theoretician Marx who died on March 14, 1883.
>
> [snip - full Reuters report under link above]
>
> Question: If VietNam likes Marx and Castro (even if only publicly), how
> good can McCain ultimately be for VietNam?
>
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
> Washington DC
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