WT: Human rights groups and U.S. lawmakers criticized President Obama on Monday for lifting the 50-year-old ban on arms sales to Vietnam, saying he gave up an important bargaining chip for pressuring communist Hanoi to improve its human rights record.
“In one fell swoop, President Obama has jettisoned what remained of U.S. leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam — and basically gotten nothing for it,” said Phil Robertson, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, who noted that Vietnamese authorities arrested a journalist, human rights activists and bloggers even as Mr. Obama lifted the arms embargo.
Watchdog groups said even during Mr. Obama’s visit, Hanoi has imprisoned at least six activists and has harassed many more Vietnamese trying to engage in free speech, blocking social media sites. more
“Nobel Peace prize laureate Barack Obama opens military arms sales to Vietnam”.
Now that’s a headline you’ll never see in the MSM!
obama looked simply wonderful under the large Statue of Ho Chi Mihn.
john kerry and jane fonda are obviously jealous and butthurt.
obama supports, funds and arms muslim jihadists and communists at the same time alienating our allies.
The enemies of freedom and liberty have never had it so good.
Follow the money.
Soros, Jarrett, Obola, or a host of others stand to make fortunes off this abomination.
izlamo delenda est …
Name one time or anytime a communist regime ever improved. And since we are starting to look more and more like them every day we need to call on our own regime to improve!
Was it worth all the blood and sacrifice of all the Vietnam vets including myself to see what our worthless POS of a Presidunce does by going to Vietnam 40 + years after that war has been over and pissing on all those served in Vietnam. Sometimes I just don’t know anymore except it was right for us to be there if we’d been allowed to defeat the enemy being the N. Vietnamese communists as we should have. And now the same bastards and cowards who lost Vietnam are in the process of losing the war on terrorism. I despise barry and the democraps and the gutless GOPEE weenies who just don’t get it. You win by defeating the enemy not by giving in and capitulating to them.
Why is it ok for those commie orientals to be armed but America can’t?…..give Iran nukes and the commies arms. As usual, the libs think they know what’s good for us.
Barry, Super Marxist. Bowing to jihad, tyranny, corruption and the anti-American way.
Did Obama at least get the VC to agree to mandate transgender restrooms in elementary schools?
This pos must go! And I love our veterans. Feel your pain and I am pissed. What the hell else is he going to do?
The most beautiful sound you will ever hear is not the call to Muslim prayer but the sound of Obama choking on a dog burger!
Next time will should draft his kids
Liberal Logic – Give the Vietnamese Government more weapons so that they can impose Human Rights.