Sure it doesn't. "And thanks to Paul Likoudis.

On the subject of whether John "McCain might have sung like a canary while a POW, a former military guy says everyone did, to some extent. The North Vietnamese were experts in making people talk. However, he notes, it would have been worse to be an NVA or Vietcong prisoner of the US. There is a reason their fate is never talked about.

I am ashamed to say I never thought about what happened to Vietnamese POWs in US hands.

UPDATE from Andrew Main: "You say, 'I am ashamed to say I never thought about what happened to Vietnamese POWs in US hands.'

"You know, so am I. And I was opposed to that war in the *early* 1960s, before almost anyone (here) had heard of it; and in 1967 fled into what I expected would be permanent exile from home, family and friends to escape it. I wasn't rich, nor had friends or family in high places; I just did what I had to."So what did happen to Vietnamese POWs in US hands? A subset, I assume, of what happened to their entire suffering nation under the imperial boot.

"I've always been rather disgusted by all the pitiful hand-wringing over the fates of American POWs and MIAs in Vietnam. They were, after all, simply members of an imperial army of invasion -- like the Russians in Hungary, the Japanese in China, the Romans in Gaul, etc., ad inf. It's called the Golden Rule, folks. I believe it can even be found somewhere in Christian teachings.

"Like they say in the joint, 'If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.'"