Bill
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I lived in the Mekong delta for about 4 years up until early 2016. Never once did I hear a Vietnamese say anything negative about Americans; they have moved on. In fact, I was in My Lai in February & met a group of middle school kids who were not happy about their assignment which was to write a report on the massacre. Question: how can the Vietnamese move on but Palestinians, Israelis, Irish, etc cannot?
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Kafkasfriend
The Vietnam war is over, the problems in Palestine, Israel, Ireland remain (although Ireland is much settled now, I can't see it going back to the days when it was legal to persecute a Catholic and ban them from work, beat them for civil rights protests etc); Palestine/Israel has to stop relying on a work of fiction (Book of Moses). The Vietnamese are amazing in their forgiveness, not sure I can forgive or forget US foreign policy then or now
Dimitri
People can only move on when the war is over, which the Israeli question is not.
Hatuxka
Just want to answer your wondering why no Vietnamese ever brought up what they or their families endured at the hands of the US military. It may have been your demeanor, could have been many things taken together, but from Vietnamese I spent time with they recalled to me how their father in the NLF near Saigon was bathed in chemicals dropped by US planes or how near Danang they hid from American sweeps that uniformly targetted everything of their existence, them, their shelter, their garden plots, their animals. ANYTHING. Not just what moved.
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