Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with Hanoi
Former Republican Congressman John LeBoutillier criticizes current Republican policies toward Vietnam and forcefully argues for normalizing relations with Hanoi. LeBoutillier exposes what he terms the hypocrisy of present U.S. policy toward its former foe and reveals, for the first time, Oval Office secrets about the abandonment of hundreds of American prisoners of war. Vietnam Now clearly demonstrates the advantages of normalized relations, including a severe weakening of Soviet influence throughout Southeast Asia and a reassertion of American economic and diplomatic power in the world's most rapidly growing region.

Vietnam Now is the first book written by a Republican to challenge the conservative policies that govern U.S. relations with Vietnam. LeBoutillier counters what he calls a handful of super-conservative Republicans who continue to preach the policy of Vietnam isolation. He argues that it is finally time to recognize our former foe and, in the words of a Vietnamese diplomat, stop the bleeding that still continues from the war.

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Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with Hanoi
Former Republican Congressman John LeBoutillier criticizes current Republican policies toward Vietnam and forcefully argues for normalizing relations with Hanoi. LeBoutillier exposes what he terms the hypocrisy of present U.S. policy toward its former foe and reveals, for the first time, Oval Office secrets about the abandonment of hundreds of American prisoners of war. Vietnam Now clearly demonstrates the advantages of normalized relations, including a severe weakening of Soviet influence throughout Southeast Asia and a reassertion of American economic and diplomatic power in the world's most rapidly growing region.

Vietnam Now is the first book written by a Republican to challenge the conservative policies that govern U.S. relations with Vietnam. LeBoutillier counters what he calls a handful of super-conservative Republicans who continue to preach the policy of Vietnam isolation. He argues that it is finally time to recognize our former foe and, in the words of a Vietnamese diplomat, stop the bleeding that still continues from the war.

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Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with Hanoi

Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with Hanoi

by John Leboutillier
Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with Hanoi

Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with Hanoi

by John Leboutillier

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Former Republican Congressman John LeBoutillier criticizes current Republican policies toward Vietnam and forcefully argues for normalizing relations with Hanoi. LeBoutillier exposes what he terms the hypocrisy of present U.S. policy toward its former foe and reveals, for the first time, Oval Office secrets about the abandonment of hundreds of American prisoners of war. Vietnam Now clearly demonstrates the advantages of normalized relations, including a severe weakening of Soviet influence throughout Southeast Asia and a reassertion of American economic and diplomatic power in the world's most rapidly growing region.

Vietnam Now is the first book written by a Republican to challenge the conservative policies that govern U.S. relations with Vietnam. LeBoutillier counters what he calls a handful of super-conservative Republicans who continue to preach the policy of Vietnam isolation. He argues that it is finally time to recognize our former foe and, in the words of a Vietnamese diplomat, stop the bleeding that still continues from the war.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275932787
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/25/1989
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

JOHN LeBOUTILLIER served in the U.S. Congress from 1981 to 1983. For the past six years he has been the president of Account for POW/MIAs Inc., the largest private group in the United States dedicated to bringing home living American POWs still held in Indochina—and to educating the American people about issues of the POWs and MIAs.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Richard Nixon
Foreword by Liz Trotta
Preface
America Returbans to Vietnam
The New Vietnam
China, ASEAN, and Kampuchea
Pawns in the Game between Washington and Hanoi
Who Makes the Policy? A Cancer on the Executive Branch
The Domestic Implications of Recognizing Vietnam
Conclusion: Things That Must Be Done Immediately
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

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