Actually, I posted what I found.
■■■■ off with your nasty accusations.
And the “correction” removed the derogatory “tên”. It’s still a statue of a surrendering pilot with hands up.
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If you say so, it must be true.
Horse ■■■■■ Any American who believes that is a dumbass.
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Well Brandon did.
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Well this was embarrassing.
I get what Joe was trying to do but he really should have paid more attention to his translator.
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I don’t believe you.
It isn’t embarassing. It’s been this way for a while.
Here’s the U.S. Military Attache leaving a wreath for McCain, after he died:
Of course you don’t. You’re a lib.
I said what I said, and promoting the contrary would be a lie. Don’t lie.
At the time of his death, McCain was more liked in Vietnam than he was by you guys.
I mean I wouldn’t be surprised.
I always highly respected Senator McCain. I had problems with a good portion of his politics. But I always liked and respected the man.
Hatred of one’s past enemy tends to decrease as time passes on. The US and Vietnam have a pretty good relationship today. Not a surprise that the animosity would decrease over time.
I mean look at the US and Japan. We love each other today. In WWII we were slaughtering each other by the thousands, they were torturing and murdering our POWs, and we literally firebombed nearly every Japanese town and city and dropped nukes on two of them.
It doesn’t hurt that the US and Vietnam now have a mutual adversary. China. That has certainly sped up the improvement on our relationship and burying our very violent past together.
I’ve never seen eye-to-eye with McCain politically, aside from on some specific issues.
But my respect for him comes mainly from the second quoted paragraph - McCain was, in a lot of ways, the exemplification of that.
That “good relationship” we have with Vietnam today is in large part due to McCain. He (and Kerry, actually) led the way in pushing towards normalization and beyond - despite his history with the country, and what he went through.
And frankly only McCain could have bridged that gap. If a former POW who was tortured by agents of that regime could find forgiveness and support rapprochement and normalization of relations with said regime the rest of us have no excuse.
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Vietnam normalized relations with us before they did so with China.
They hated China before it was “cool.”
Makes sense too. China’s history in Indochina dates back over a thousand years. Multiple dynasties attempted to conquer the region, Vietnam included. China has always been their biggest threat.
So apparently since Germany and Israel have now normalized relations we should expect their PM or President to show up and hug the gates of Auschwitz.
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I get that you didn’t understand the context when you first made this post, based on whatever 4chan thread you read or FW:FW:FW:FW:FW email you recieved, but this is just silly.
My grand-aunt kissed the ground at Aushwitz, when we visited. It was the closest she could get.
All he does is read the flash-cards telling him what step to make down to the basic:
“…Now shake hands and exit…”.
or:
…" exit, follow the blue line".
It’s criminal what they are doing with the poor man.
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The context is exactly as I said. That monument was built to honor the people who shot down his plane and captured him.
