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NYTimes

[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€

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.

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.