FW: [trungduong] Go Vote!

[Anh Le Arsenault]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Thang Do" <tddo at hotmail.com>
To: <All at trungduong.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: FW: [trungduong] Go Vote!


> Hi Nam,
>
> I agree with you sometimes stick only is not a solution. However, if we
> don't use stick at some points then they would use their own stick to
> suppress the patriots/innocent people.
>
> Thang
>

Within the context of normalization to Vietnam and Human Rights and such,
the theme "carrot and stick" is used with this meaning: carrot  = to
invite/attract to, stick = to scare away. With the Human Rights Act
proposition used as a "stick", who can guarantee how things would turn out
if the Act passed the Senate:
1) Would Hanoi take it gracefully and follow it ?
OR
2) Would Hanoi throw a tantrum, turn down the normalization efforts, and
shut the door again?

If neither of those scenarios can be guaranteed, why keep blaming
Kerry/McCain ?

Look at China, with their big big violations of Human Rights there. But U.S.
govt never impose Human Rights Act upon their relationship with China. Why
not? Because they believe that doing so could harm  the relationship with
China.
Look at Cuba, Castro'd rather keep his people suffering the U.S. sanction
than open the door to Democracy and Human Rights.
Overall, if it were just easy and simple that U.S govt. could tell any
country in the world, "Here is the Human Rights Act, take it, follow it, and
we will shake hand",  then Freedom, Human Rights, and all wonderful things
would spread out the globe. Unfortunately, that's not reality.

On the side, Bill Clinton opposed to VN War. I've just gone through 1/3 of
his "My Life" book. He did whatever he could then to oppose VN War. As I
know, many Vietnamese-Americans voted for him, especially for his
re-election in 1996. Didn't they hold against him for his opposition to VN
War?

---pa