{"id":1602,"date":"2008-05-03T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2008-06-01T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T16:35:27","slug":"diplomacy-worked-so-well-with-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy worked so well with Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of this last week’s commenters made the completely intellectually vacant point (while defending Ron Paul’s contention that we should withdraw inside our borders and depend on diplomacy instead of projecting our military power) that we’ve done so much better with our relationship with Vietnam using diplomacy than we did with the force of arms. Well, I picked up this story at Democracy Project<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The other day<\/strong><\/a>, Vietnam voted along with China, Russia, Libya, Burkina Faso, and Costa Rica on the UN Security Council, against the US, Britain and France for a U.N. special envoy and a voluntary arms embargo of Zimbabwe. Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was “just unacceptable” that the election results had not been released a month after the vote. “We know who is the winner,” he added.<\/p>\n

This was just another of Vietnam\u2019s many international positions opposed to both the West and to human rights around the world. (I wrote about what to expect from Vietnam being allowed to sit on the UN\u2019s Security Council here<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They joined with China and Russia (shock!) to oppose a voluntary<\/strong> arms embargo of Zimbabwe. Why, other than the fact that they stand to make money shipping arms into Mugabe’s Zimbabwe would anyone vote against a voluntary<\/strong> arms embargo? Oh, maybe the fact that China, Russia and Vietnam are ideological allies of Mugabe who is trying to maintain control of his country using the Leninist\/Stalinist\/Maoist\/Minhist tactic of starving the people into submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of this last week’s commenters made the completely intellectually vacant point (while defending Ron Paul’s … Diplomacy worked so well with Vietnam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}