Obama nudges Vietnam on human rights, while pressing reconciliation agenda
Obama nudges Vietnam on human rights, while pressing reconciliation agenda
By David Nakamura
HANOI — President Obama urged Vietnam on human rights matters Tuesday while hailing its warming relations with the United States, calling the evolution from bitter wartime foes to growing partners a lesson for a world besieged by modern global conflicts.
“At a time when many conflicts seem intractable — never seem to end — it shows how hearts can change and a different future is possible when we refuses to be prisoners of the past,” Obama told a crowd of 2,300 during a speech at the Hanoi Convention Center. “We’ve shown how peace is better than war.”
For a U.S. commander-in-chief who has struggled to wind down the United States’ involvement in lengthy combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama’s remarks took on a hopeful, but to some degree, wistful tone. He didn’t mention those two wars directly, but his focus on this trip, which also will include a historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, has taken on symbolic meaning as he focuses on final reconciliation with two former U.S. enemies.
The president’s address on his first trip to this Southeast Asian nation was aimed at marking what aides have framed as a new milestone in the bilateral relations. A day earlier, Obama announced that the United States would fully lift an arms sales embargo to Vietnam that had been in place for half a century. The two nations also are partners in an expansive 12-nation free trade pact.
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Like always, I open this material to the floor for serious discussion because it is nothing more important than a serious dialog of the education and our future of our Hebrew people.
By David Nakamura
HANOI — President Obama urged Vietnam on human rights matters Tuesday while hailing its warming relations with the United States, calling the evolution from bitter wartime foes to growing partners a lesson for a world besieged by modern global conflicts.
“At a time when many conflicts seem intractable — never seem to end — it shows how hearts can change and a different future is possible when we refuses to be prisoners of the past,” Obama told a crowd of 2,300 during a speech at the Hanoi Convention Center. “We’ve shown how peace is better than war.”
For a U.S. commander-in-chief who has struggled to wind down the United States’ involvement in lengthy combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama’s remarks took on a hopeful, but to some degree, wistful tone. He didn’t mention those two wars directly, but his focus on this trip, which also will include a historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, has taken on symbolic meaning as he focuses on final reconciliation with two former U.S. enemies.
The president’s address on his first trip to this Southeast Asian nation was aimed at marking what aides have framed as a new milestone in the bilateral relations. A day earlier, Obama announced that the United States would fully lift an arms sales embargo to Vietnam that had been in place for half a century. The two nations also are partners in an expansive 12-nation free trade pact.
READ MORE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-p...
Like always, I open this material to the floor for serious discussion because it is nothing more important than a serious dialog of the education and our future of our Hebrew people.
