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Julian Zelizer: Kissinger's plan to leave U.S. forces in Vietnam led to defeat of South Vietnamese forces in 1975.
Zelizer says Kissinger was influenced by a former French colonial bureaucrat who persuaded him the Americans could not win where the French had lost.
He says Kissinger didn't tell either Nixon or the South Vietnamese president about what would be a totally impossible scheme.
One must ask how the Americans could have sustained the Vietnam war amid incredible anti-war’ pressure on the home front.
Was Kissinger right, then, in extricating America from the Vietnam nightmare by falsely claiming to have found a face-saving way out? We can only hope those around President Biden won’t be urging similar concessions.
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