Might not be a surprise to many of you but this should only reinforce what many of use have previously thought - Nixon/Kissinger always knew they couldn't "win" in Vietnam.
Funny, Kissinger just a couple days ago arrives at the sad conclusion now 4 years after the Iraq war started that we cannot win in Iraq.
"FORMER US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than in the Vietnam War, and military victory was no longer possible.He also said he sympathised with the troubles facing US President George W. Bush.
“A military victory in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible,” Dr Kissinger said in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/247/
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Nixon, Kissinger Found Vietnam Unwinnable
By Staff
Apr 3, 2007
A new book on former U.S. President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the two men thought the Vietnam War was "impossible" to win.
But while admitting to each other that the war was not possible to win, Nixon and Kissinger also agreed to label the Democrats "the party of surrender" for wanting to pull out of Vietnam, said historian Robert Dallek in "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power," the New York Daily News reported.
"In Saigon the tendency is to fight the war to victory," Nixon told Kissinger as early as 1969, Dallek wrote, "but you and I know it won't happen -- it is impossible."
Excerpts from the book appear in the May issue of Vanity Fair.
The Daily News said that other revelations in the book include Nixon telling another aide that Kissinger might need "psychiatric help," and that Kissinger often tried to keep Nixon from major foreign affairs decisions because he feared Nixon was drunk. (c) UPI
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Funny, Kissinger just a couple days ago arrives at the sad conclusion now 4 years after the Iraq war started that we cannot win in Iraq.
"FORMER US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than in the Vietnam War, and military victory was no longer possible.He also said he sympathised with the troubles facing US President George W. Bush.
“A military victory in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible,” Dr Kissinger said in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/247/
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Nixon, Kissinger Found Vietnam Unwinnable
By Staff
Apr 3, 2007
A new book on former U.S. President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the two men thought the Vietnam War was "impossible" to win.
But while admitting to each other that the war was not possible to win, Nixon and Kissinger also agreed to label the Democrats "the party of surrender" for wanting to pull out of Vietnam, said historian Robert Dallek in "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power," the New York Daily News reported.
"In Saigon the tendency is to fight the war to victory," Nixon told Kissinger as early as 1969, Dallek wrote, "but you and I know it won't happen -- it is impossible."
Excerpts from the book appear in the May issue of Vanity Fair.
The Daily News said that other revelations in the book include Nixon telling another aide that Kissinger might need "psychiatric help," and that Kissinger often tried to keep Nixon from major foreign affairs decisions because he feared Nixon was drunk. (c) UPI
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