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    On side it makes sense, but on the other it is dealing with a know Commie gov't.

    BACK IN ‘NAM


    Dr. Jack Wheeler
    Tuesday, 06 June 2006

    In a little noticed prelude for this November's announcement, Hanoi kicked the Russians out of Cam Ranh Bay in 2002. Now we're going back in.
    Bush had a containment plan for China from the beginning of his presidency, a series of military alliances surrounding China. It's working with Japan and India, it hasn't worked with Putin's Russia. Now it seems that an alliance with Vietnam is falling into place.

    If there is ever a military confrontation between China and the US, it will be somewhere between the Formosa Strait and the Spratly Islands (see the map in The Indo-China Con).

    The best way to head off such a confrontation is a strong US Navy presence in the region at the ready. The place to have it is Cam Ranh Bay. Such a base is the best way to prevent war, not provoke it.
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    If Vietnam wants to let us place a naval base in one of their key bay's then so be it. I have no problem dealing with them on this front. Communism can be replaced by Democracy easily enough via contact. And even if it doesn't replace it, communism there will change.
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