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Re: Xa lo^. Tru*o*`ng So*n
Dear anh Nguyen N.D.,
I enjoy very much your discussion and agree with you about
many points, including the need of the construction of the Truong Son
Highway.
However, I have the same idea as anh Tuan Pham wrote. We
CAN NOT take any risky action. Our country is now
in the bottom of the world, and we must calculate with a cool
head how we can develop our country, and catch up
other countries.
Regarding the Truong Son highway, I think the first job we
should do is conducting a thourough investigation, analysis,
and economic forecast before we start constructing the road. The
investigation and analysis should be done right now. And,
based on results of the investigation, we can decide what is
the right time we should start the construction job. If the young
soldiers are free, there will be a lot of jobs for them to do,
including upgrading and expanding the existing 1A highway,
and many other roads. I must frankly say that the 1A highway
is now terribly damaged at many points.
Regarding the national securirty, if we are dirt poor, we can not
defense our country with or without XLTS. Once we are rich, we
will be powerful.
Regards,
Vu Thanh Ca.
At 7:20 PM 97.5.22 -0500, Tuan Pham wrote:
>wind015 <wind015@ipch.ynu.ac.jp> wrote
>
>>2) We are very behind comparing with other countries and have no choice
>>but to play the catch-up game...
>>
>>3) Please remember that we are poor but we have to catch up, that mean
>>we have to take the risk and have to go out of the beaten track...
>>
>>Nguyen N.D.
>>
>
>Hi
>
>Frankly, I find this kind of reasoning EXTREMELY scary.
>It is the same kind of reasoning that Mao used to justify his
>"great leap forward", backyard steelmills and all. China is
>too far behind, he said, we must take risks or will never catch
>up... The result is that China fell backwards more and more.
>It was only when Deng came to power and rational economic
>decision making began to be made that China started to reverse
>its slide and started to make real progress. China is now 10 years
>ahead of Vietnam. That's not such a big lead - with patience
>and keeping a cool head, Vietnam may well catch up. By losing
>its cool and taking poorly calculated gambles, it may well
>slide back.
>
>Let's make it clear - I am not saying here that the TS highway is
>(or is not) a poorly calculated gamble, I am addressing the general
>line of reasoning of the above message.
>
>There is a saying whose author I have forgotten: The world belongs
>to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
>
>It must also be pointed out that in a real race, in order to venture
>SUCCESSFULLY outside the beaten track, you must be BETTER
>trained, BETTER informed, MORE clever than other competitors,
>otherwise you will simply stumble and fall. IS VIETNAM'S LEADERSHIP
>BETTER TRAINED, BETTER INFORMED, MORE CLEVER than those of other
>countries?
>
>Cheers
>Tuan Pham