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Michael Benge
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December 12, 2019
Abandoned Allies and the Lessons We Still Need to LearnWe had no ally during the Vietnam War more dependable and steadfast than the Montagnards. Look at what has become of them since.
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September 30, 2018
Will America Once Again Abandon Its Christian Montagnard Allies?These heroic Vietnamese fighters got the shaft in the 1970s. It's time for the USA to do right by them.
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November 8, 2017
Playing the Trump Card in VietnamThe Vietnamese government has ramped up its human rights abuses. President Trump should not play too nice when he visits this weekend.
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July 26, 2017
The United Nations Has No Business Setting U.S. Refugee Policy in Southeast AsiaThe fate of Indochina's Christian minorities and the failure of the United Nations to identify the persecuted must become a State Department priority in refugee resettlement.
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December 1, 2016
China Builds Deep Water Seaport in Cambodia on the Gulf of ThailandPresident Obama’s pipe dream policy of using Vietnam to contain China, which was conjured up years ago by two Senate Johns – Kerry and McCain – is falling apart.
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May 23, 2016
Obama’s Visit to Vietnam Comes as Mass Demonstrations Protest Pollution and Massive Fish KillsPromoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that will bring even more dangerously contaminated seafood to the United States.
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August 16, 2015
Modern Day Slavery in Vietnam and MalaysiaObama and his Administration are turning a convenient blind eye to the gross human rights abuses of both countries, squandering the opportunity for leverage in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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August 2, 2015
Vietnam's Unending OppressionOver 20 years of diplomatic relations and ever increasing economic aid to Vietnam has only fueled countless deceptive broken promises and continued oppression. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will only agravate this.
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June 11, 2014
The POWs Obama is Leaving Behind in AfghanistanPut aside, for a moment, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. What about the health of two other American captives that Obama is leaving behind?
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March 23, 2014
A Cambodian Spring TsunamiMurdering journalists and shooting garment workers seems to be par-for-the-course for the Hun Sen regime, rife with brutal Khmer Rouge holdovers
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December 21, 2013
Cambodia Apes Vietnam in Its War on ReligionCommunists in southeast Asia have not really changed their tune since the Khmer Rouge.
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September 22, 2013
Vietnam's Talk/Fight Strategy in play on Human Rights NegotiationsWe can expect Vietnam's barbaric human rights violations to continue unchecked as that nation seeks arms, concessions, and partnership with the toothless United States.
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August 18, 2013
U.S. Aid to Cambodia's Corrupt MilitaryAmerica's cooperation with the corrupt Cambodian government is appoarching the level of open scandal.
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May 27, 2013
The Secret War in Laos ReduxLaotians are even now paying with their lives for standing up for freedom in the Vietnam War era.
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May 4, 2013
Communist Vietnam -- Human Trafficker ExtraordinaireCommunist countries exploit and degrade sex the same as they do everything else.
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April 27, 2013
Vietnam Sucker-Punches the US on Human Rights and Religious FreedomCommunist Vietnam has violated every agreement it has made with the United States. Even so, the U.S. government continues to bend over backward to appease this regime.
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October 28, 2012
Danger on the MekongWith a repressive and corrupt leadership and its government and army rife with Khmer Rouge commanders, Cambodia is a country for sale to the highest bidder, to Vietnam, China, or anyone else if the price is right.
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July 22, 2012
Vietnam's Two-Front War on ReligionVietnam's official religion is communism -- to the exclusion of all others, and no matter what anyone at the U.S. State Department says.
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June 10, 2012
Foreign Aid Underwrites Another Chapter in Cambodia's Bloody HistoryIf we're going to talk about cutting foreign aid to reduce the deficit, let's start with Cambodia.
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June 12, 2011
What Religious Freedom Means in VietnamTextbook brutality in a well-known communist bastion.
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April 3, 2011
Vietnamese Communists' Fear Factor is RisingSince the Middle-East uprisings began, in fear of popular uprisings, Vietnam's communist rulers have reacted with increasingly brutal crackdowns and arrests of possible dissidents