VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — President Barack Obama has become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the isolated, landlocked Southeast Asian nation of Laos.
He arrived late Monday in the capital, Vientiane, for a three-day visit that’s meant to close a dark chapter in the shared history between the two countries and rebuild trust.
Obama flew in from Hangzhou, China, where he attended the Group of 20 economic summit.
In Laos, Obama planned to acknowledge damage caused by a U.S. bombing campaign across the border in Vietnam during America’s war with that country.
He is expected to announce new aid to help clean up tens of millions of unexploded bombs that dot the country’s mountain villages and fields, keeping them out of reach of unsuspecting people.
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I’m assuming that he is in a DMZ.
Obama and us Dems always setting the trend.
I guess we’ll start hearing complaints from the Right about why Obama isn’t taking care of all the unexploded bombs in this country first.
Sane people would call it humanitarian or seeking to make the world into a better place. The right-wingers will call it part of Obama’s “apology for America” tour…
Henry Kissinger isn’t too old to be strung up by his thumbs.
I will miss him as our POTUS.