Vietnam and Cuba: What Obama still doesn’t get about communism

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May 24, 201

6 by Alberto de la Cruz

The way I see it there are only two explanations for President Obama’s disturbing fetish for communist dictatorships: Either he is dreadfully naïve or an insidious true believer. Neither bodes well for America and the cause of freedom for the oppressed throughout the world.

 

Seth Lipsky in The New York Post:

 

What Obama still doesn’t get about Communism

President Obama, standing in front of the American and Communist flags, announced in Hanoi this week that he’s ending the embargo that has for 50 years blocked US arms sales to Vietnam. The move, he said, would end a “lingering vestige of the Cold War.”

 

Between North Korea, Red China, Cuba and Vietnam, it’s a bit of a trick telling one lingering vestige from another. How about the lingering vestige of the Communist Party? When are we going to end that?

 

It’s not my intention here to re-litigate the Vietnam War. (In my opinion, history will vindicate the hawks and go hard on the Congress, where America’s hard-earned battlefield victory was given away in pursuit of an illusory peace.)