71 percent of Vietnamese support the U.S. military presence in Asia

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From about 1965-1973, U.S. troops fought a war in Vietnam that failed in all its objectives and killed as many as three million Vietnamese citizens. So it's little short of astonishing that fully 71 percent of the Vietnamese population supports the current U.S. military presence in Asia, per a poll from the Pew Research Center:

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.