Foreign Policy

Trajectory of U.S. Policy in Vietnam Offers a Roadmap to a Possible Future in the Mideast

2016-05-23 Ivan Eland

As President Barack Obama's visit to Vietnam and the lifting of the arms embargo to that country represents his "pivot to Asia," his simultaneous killing of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the Taliban leader in Pakistan, and the U.S.-backed Ira