Former senator’s war record ignites debate in Vietnam
BANGKOK — The appointment of former Sen. Bob Kerrey to lead a new U.S.-backed university in Vietnam has set off debate among Vietnamese over whether he should be disqualified because of his part in killing women and children as a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam War. “While the Vietnamese are willing to let bygones be bygones,” Ton Nu Thi Ninh, Vietnam’s former ambassador to the European Union, said by email, “the decision to appoint Bob Kerrey to be chairman of the board of the first American-style university in Vietnam strikes me as insensitive to the Vietnamese at best, and taking us for granted at worst.” The university, Fulbright University Vietnam, the first independent, private university ...
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