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Old 12-16-2016, 04:35 PM  
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam View Post
Americans do not understand thinking in Southeast Asia -- Indochina.

We have a monument in black granite in the nation's capital with the names of 58,307 dead the last time we thought we could fix the problems in South Asia.

That war was to guarantee the sovereignty of South Vietnam against Vietnamese reunification.
We don't need to fix anything, just maintain our status, which is in jeopardy in that reagion with the Chinese militarized man made islands & China outfunding us in the Philippines by the billions:

PH bags $13.5B in deals from China | Inquirer Business

They call it our Asia pivot for a reason:

The Philippines Are Just a Symptom of America's Asia Pivot Problem | The National Interest
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