Thursday, August 04, 2011

US Navy Admiral Visits Cambodia [-US operation to woo a dictatorial regime?]

Vice Admiral Scott Van Buskirk
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Voice of America

A top U.S. naval officer is holding talks with high-ranking Cambodian military officials aimed at improving naval cooperation between the two nations.

Vice Admiral Scott Van Buskirk, the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, arrived in Phnom Penh Wednesday for a two-day visit. A Cambodian military spokesman says Van Buskirk met with deputy naval commander Vice Admiral Soa Sarin and Lieutenant General Noun Samnang to discuss bilateral and regional issues. Samnang is deputy for the ministry's foreign affairs office.


The U.S. military says the two sides discussed Phnom Penh's participation in readiness training later this year. They also discussed training in maritime security, search and rescue, and humanitarian and disaster relief.

Vice Admiral Van Buskirk will also visit a naval base to observe Cambodian naval training exercises.

The U.S. and Cambodian held their first joint naval exercise earlier this year.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

cambodia welcomes the US military. god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Khmer pussies welcome American dick

Anonymous said...

Vietcong is still spreading like wild mushrooms in S.E.A

Anonymous said...

Hopefully, the visit is not to secure US oil drilling deal with Cambodia.

It's about time the US gets serious about what it preaches.

Anonymous said...

Am not really fan of the US policy behavior, but Cambodia needs all political movements to upgrade the democracy in our country.
Or some of us here still want to live under the Vietnamese oppression.

Anonymous said...

Don't get your hopes up !

The US just want to deal with whomever that will listen to them !

Democratcy is not that important !

Just look back in the past, do you think Lon Nol was a democratic leader ??

Ofcourse it was not, but he listened to the US !!! He followed US orders !!!

As right now, the US support the current Gov.

Anonymous said...

The US has notorious reputation of supporting current and past dictators throughout the world, historically.

M

Anonymous said...

The past and the present can be
changed.The days gone by,the US
was bad,but here and now maybe
nice.
The US has been three things:
*protection world democracy
*it own safety
*it own economy
The Richard Nixon era was over;
this era is Obama.
This time perhaps the US comes to
catch Hun Sen and send to Hague.

Anonymous said...

No denying that America, China, Vietnam think of their own interest. What they did are dictated by their own interests. When Khmer leaders are going to follow suit?

Anonymous said...

If you don't like America, you can go to hell.

Anonymous said...

i like the US military. love you long time, ok! welcome to cambodia anytime, american military personnel. god bless america and cambodia.