On April 21, 2026, President Trump called in to CNBC’s Squawk Box program and said “I would have won Vietnam very quickly.” Do you agree with this comment?
[TDH : Trump the Idiot. Try to attack Vietnam or any coutry defending their home against foregn aggression war line Iran or Cuba – and you shall learn, be it military or economic or 1000% tariffs. You idiotic Joker are the shame for the US, where I am practicing law as a US citizen in Washingont DC. You shame me and millions of US citizens]
Defending Democracy Shawna Topanga SF State & ID State Univs, AS & BBS, Life & work experience Apr 22
George Wallace’s 1968 Presidential campaign featured Air Force General Curtis Lemay as the Vice Presidential nominee. Well Bombs Away Lemay also had an idea of how to end the Vietnam War quickly too: nukes. And, had he gotten any more traction than he did, there would have been lots of mushroom clouds over Vietnam … instead of having mushrooms in your dimsun soup in Hanoi.
Just bomb them back to the stone age, thought Lemay, and that’s not too far from Trump’s ideas today. We still have only one way to get rid of enemies and adversaries THAT quickly and it’d be the classic case of overkill in the extreme. And it’s not like anyone else in the world wouldn’t have opinions about this either. Don’t forget that the Vietnam War happened during the Cold War. One sure fired way to get it to heat right up real quickly is to go out and pop off a few nukes on a tiny little Pacific nation that sees a different political vision than what we have. North Vietnam at the time was solidly backed by China and the USSR. And that instantaneous escalation could have sucked in the entire world VERY quickly.
Trump doesn’t have any other ideas or solutions. He doesn’t have realistic solutions or an end game with Iran either. He won’t even know when his “military objectives” have been reached because he doesn’t have any. In Vietnam, his method would have been no different and, if you think it was a god awful mess then, just throw Trump into the picture for a real colossal sea of f*ckups!
I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, with a Doctor of Law in the US, attended the master program at the National School of Administration of Việt Nam, and graduated from Sài Gòn University Law School. I aso studied philosophy at the School of Letters in Sài Gòn.
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I have worked as an anti-trust attorney for Federal Trade Commission and a litigator for a fortune-100 telecom company in Washington DC.
I have taught law courses for legal professionals in Việt Nam and still counsel VN government agencies on legal matters.
I have founded and managed businesses for me and my family, both law and non-law.
I have published many articles on national newspapers and radio stations in Việt Nam.
In 1989 I was one of the founding members of US-VN Trade Council, working to re-establish US-VN relationship.
Since the early 90's, I have established and managed VNFORUM and VNBIZ forum on VN-related matters; these forums are the subject of a PhD thesis by Dr. Caroline Valverde at UC-Berkeley and her book Transnationalizing Viet Nam.
I translate poetry and my translation of "A Request at Đồng Lộc Cemetery" is now engraved on a stone memorial at Đồng Lộc National Shrine in VN.
I study and teach the Bible and Buddhism. In 2009 I founded and still manage dotchuoinon.com on positive thinking and two other blogs on Buddhism.
In 2015 a group of friends and I founded website CVD - Conversations on Vietnam Development (cvdvn.net).
I study the art of leadership with many friends who are religious, business and government leaders from many countries.
I have written these books, published by Phu Nu Publishing House in Hanoi:
"Positive Thinking to Change Your Life", in Vietnamese (TƯ DUY TÍCH CỰC Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống) (Oct. 2011)
"10 Core Values for Success" (10 Giá trị cốt lõi của thành công) (Dec. 2013)
"Live a Life Worth Living" (Sống Một Cuộc Đời Đáng Sống) (Oct. 2023)
I practice Jiu Jitsu and Tai Chi for health, and play guitar as a hobby, usually accompanying my wife Trần Lê Túy Phượng, aka singer Linh Phượng.
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