Vietnam articles of interest

Preparatory to a visit to Vietnam in the Fall, here and here are two articles about what is going on in that country today.  It is obvious that the communist regime now running Vietnam is repressive and becoming more so, which should come as no surprise to anyone considering the history of all communist countries in the past.  It is tragic that our involvement in Vietnam in the 60's and 70's ended as it did.  It is apparent to anyone who has read up on that period and its aftermath that had the US, at a minimum, provided war material and logistical support to the South Vietnamese when we pulled out after the peace agreement with the North Vietnamese, that there would probably at least exist today a viable South Vietnam government and free people.  Vietnam today would most likely look like Korea -- a productive, free South and a repressive, unfree North, instead of what it is now -- a repressive, unfree unified country.  So much for the perfidy of the left in this country which, let us never forget, was responsible for cutting off all support to the South Vietnamese shortly after our departure.