If John McCain becomes President how should he deal with Vietnam, which held him as a POW and tortured him?

This is a question that was previously deleted and the reason given was that it was neither a question or an answer. Several people suggested I repost it, so this is why it is back up. Quite correctly, this is not an answer. It is, however, a question. When it was previously posted, some of those who answered opined that John McCain could not win the Presidency. I disagree, but that is irrelevant. And that is not the question. The question is, how much forgiveness is appropriate, given the circumstances of McCain's captivity? Or is any forgiveness appropriate? This is to the suggestion I do some research. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I served as a family escort in 1973 during the repatriation of Vietnam POWs. I count several Vietnam former POWs as friends, although I am not personally acquainted with John McCain. I can and have forgiven the former North Vietnamese. Except for one thing. The way they treated their own people. Some of those were also friends of mine. As to the question of McCain's electability, he can be elected. That doesn't mean he will be, and I will concede that it's possible he shouldn't be. But every candidate has some weakness and McCain's strengths could very well propel him against those weaknesses. This is not a McCain campaign commercial--it is a call to consider the question, which is more about Vietnam than it is about McCain.

Public Comments

1. He won't become the President so that's a non-issue.
2. It should no longer be an issue; that's in the past- he needs to focus on the future.
3. He is a Christian...forgive and forget. That's what we good folks do. We are not put on earth to hold grudges...that would be like a terrorist from the Middle East!
4. he already has dealt with it - he was one of the strongest forces pushing to normalize relations with communist vietnam -
5. Vietnam is a much different country now. This question is out of context. The paradigm of Vietnam has changed, only American perception is either ignorant or just plain wrong. Do some research. But I applaud your question anyhow!! To answer the question. He should do nothing. America is a Constitutional Republic in which a President can't/shouldn't make such types of unilateral decisions.
6. "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." -John McCain, Feb. 17, 2000 Pretty much says it all.
7. your right this is mcains year,and iv been geting laft at for months until about a week ago.i think hes a pro and wont take it personaly.plus he's a smart and resonable guy and know's the "vietnames" he would personaly have a problem with are long dead.its what he would do politicly that im curious about. that north south debait is far from completly settled in that county.
8. Of all the candidates I think McCain is the best qualified to negotiate for our troops however from what I hear many people are so tired of this war, they are willing to for the first time cross over and vote for the other Guy, The right news has not convinced them that he is the 'Anti Christ'. I am going to go out on a limb here and predict that either Obama or Hillary Clinton will win. Both of my brothers are Vietnam Vets as was my ex-husband. They want an end to this war and will vote for Hillary if they have to (meanning if she wins the Democratic nomanation.)
9. As I said previously, McCain is unfit for command--he needs a MEGA-HYPER-SERIOUS RE-EDUCATION! If 150 years of Communism rendering the entire Stateside education system FUBAR weren't bad enough, Communism was apparently force-fed into the POW's at Hoa Lo and elsewhere in the so-called Viet People's Democratic Republic. I ended up a victim of Communism in a different way--the National Education Association, which I STILL consider a front for Communism, hyper-socialized all the schools just as I was entering the first grade after the Republic of Viet Nam collapsed. I am in NO mood for forgiveness--in fact, soon as the present enemy is exterminated, I'd just as soon RETAKE 'Nam, starting with an air-land smash aimed straight at Hanoi and flushing the Commies into the Gulf of Tonkin in a several-times-larger version of what they did to us in 1973-75. NO LIE, G. I.--we as a People owe the Free Viets, who all ended up Stateside for want of a home, all that and THEN some. As I read all declared candidates for the Office of President of the United States, McCain is not of a mindset to give the Free Viets their home back, no more than are Obama and H. Clinton; in fact, I have reason to doubt that McCain is of the mindset necessary to exterminate the enemy in this present war. So far, nobody has proposed tearing down piece by piece, and searching for contraband of war, any Stateside mosque; the enemy uses mosques for arsenals in the Middle East, much to the consternation of our on-scene commanders.
10. With wisdom and mercy. If he becomes the president he has known war from more than one side. The warrior, the prisoner, and the vet which many Americans treated poorly when they returned home. He has to realize that he represents a nation in a very precarious time and not let a personal vendetta guide him. If he hates "gooks," then he needs to look at them a humans, for without letting it go, but being aware of what happens, he can have a keen eye on our own POWs.