Please guess which two countries are meant here:
These two countries, bedeviled by decades of misunderstandings, violence and wariness, now have the chance to create a partnership …
The sentence puts a serial rapist and killer and its victims on the same moral level. It is whitewashing the very one sided killing of a million people. It is from a NYT piece previewing Obama's visit to Vietnam.
There is another propagandistic claptrap line in there probably to prompt the reader to throw up:
[The] goal has been to get enough human rights guarantees from the Vietnamese to allow for the lifting of sanctions on arms sales to Vietnam and perhaps the return of American military units to its shores
The U.S., THE U.S.(!), is asking Vietnam(!) for human rights guarantees? This not out of moral concerns or something alike (not that anyone would believe that anyway) but only so it can rob Vietnam again via arms sales, reoccupy it militarily and use it as a mere pawn against China.
There must be some pathological character deformation that allows people to write and read such sentences without utter disgust.
