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

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:

The result in the Philippines is also remarkable, given the brutal colonial war America fought there from 1899-1902. With the rise of China, apparently there are bigger worries than history.

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