Vietnam Comes Full Circle

At this rate, Vietnam will be offering Chirac asylum before we know it:

WASHINGTON - Vietnam’s communist regime is tightening its control of neighboring Laos by exploiting its economy and looting natural resources, dissident Lao groups in the United States charged on Monday.

“The (Socialist Republic of Vietnam) regime has reduced Laos to a de facto and de jure colonial possession and vassal state,” said a joint statement at the end of a meeting of 15 ethnic Lao and Hmong human rights groups in Washington.

Get ready for The People's Socialist Colony Of Laos. As they say: In capitalism, man exploits man; in socialism, the reverse is true.