Tet 2009: Vietnam Ponders its Future
Barbara Crossette
As the season of Tet begins, questions of human rights, widespread corruption and a new novel highly critical of Ho Chi Minh, are giving Vietnamese much cause for reflection.
Barbara Crossette
As the season of Tet begins, questions of human rights, widespread corruption and a new novel highly critical of Ho Chi Minh, are giving Vietnamese much cause for reflection.
Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?
Dustin Roasa : Human Rights & Civil Liberties
As Vietnam becomes a player in world trade, its human rights record and treatment of dissidents come under increased scrutiny. The world must do more.
A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.
Andrew Lam : Human Rights & Civil Liberties
Vietnam is experiencing its worst crackdown on human rights in decades, and US policy bears part of the blame.
Graham Greene remains a compelling figure in this moment of moral bankruptcy.
Thirty years after the US retreat, Vietnam is a peaceful trading partner.
Closeness, even friendship, with our former enemies.
If Americans have done their best to forget the war, so have the Vietnamese.
Jonathan Schell : US Wars & Military Action
The United States cannot condemn in others what it covers up when committed by its own.
Christopher Hitchens : Foreign Affairs
It didn't surprise me that Henry Kissinger had argued for the most grandiose and hysterical response.
