It's likely that no community in America watched President Bush's Vietnam trip more carefully than Little Saigon in Orange County, California.

NPR: Vietnamese Americans Aren't Ready to Forget Past

But he has little time in which to help fortify Vietnam's frail industrial base to survive the battering it will get from the rapidly adjusting countries around it.

ECONOMIST: Vietnam

But despite Vietnam's economic success there is little sign to date that the ruling party feels sure enough of its popularity to permit genuine political competition.

ECONOMIST: Vietnam

Before the Goldwater-Nichols reform, each branch of the military too often carried out its operations with little heed to what its counterparts were doing, a situation that seriously hampered effective prosecution of the Vietnam War.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Then the friends ship off to Vietnam, are hardened by the insanity they live through there, return to an America that offers them little opportunity, and turn to crime.

NEWYORKER: Dead Presidents

Besides, the second avenue of attack is that Mr Kerry has been a little too political himself, seldom showing the same mettle in internal Democratic politics that he did in the jungles of Vietnam.

ECONOMIST: How would the White House attack John Forbes Kerry?