Their war, their defeasance, their treason, their shame.
Nixon and Kissinger and Gerry Ford and even the Reagan and Carter and Clinton Administrations, and both Bushes, deserve some lumps for this.
Jimmy Carter had to know better, he was ex-Navy and a micromanager deluxe. How could anyone in the military lie to him, unless he turned a deaf ear?
Bush 41 was the damned DCI for God's sakes! And Gerry Ford had to have been briefed on this -- Henry Kissinger was his Secretary of State, didn't Henry tell him all this stuff?
It just makes me ill.
But in the later innings, it seems to me that McCain and Kerry and Slick Willie all deserve serious lumps for that "rapprochement" and "normalization" garbage. Clinton even wanted to visit Vietnam on a U.S. warship, and the Vietnamese Communists were insisting that he sail into port with the red Communist rag flying from his masthead, above the colors of the United States. I don't know who talked Slick out of that one, but whoever it was had to love his country, and he saved it from one more Clintonoid humiliation.
IMO, his biography needs to be scrutinized.
Would you say that Henry's character flaw was his pragmatism?