Peter Deutsch: “I, along with I think probably 30 of my colleagues last week, had an interesting dinner meeting with Bob McNamara. If…”

“I, along with I think probably 30 of my colleagues last week, had an interesting dinner meeting with Bob McNamara. If there is any lesson that he has learned in looking back on Vietnam, it is really hearing and receiving, giving the wrong messages and not talking to each other. We really have an opportunity right now to heed some of the lessons that he talked about. Vietnam is making progress, contrary to the previous speaker. There is a great deal of evidence which our former colleague, the Ambassador, has articulated to us, and the press has as well. It is a relationship that can continue to be good for the United States as we are moving a young nation towards moving into the community of nations, of living within international standards. It is a region in the world that for 4,000 years has faced uncertainty and conflict. What we are talking about is normal trading relationships. That is really what the issue is about. Obviously people can see it differently, but I urge the defeat of the resolution.”