7. I don't think it's widely appreciated enough how much Vietnam was (like 2003 Iraq invasion) a war of choice by hubristic hegemon.
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8. LBJ's Vietnam policies came from an expansive sense that America could impose its will on a recalcitrant world.
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9. Kissinger/Nixon more than other Cold War presidents realized limits of USA power, hence Detente & opening to China
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10. The fact that Nixon/Kissinger explicitly saw foreign policy as being about national interest useful corrective to Cold War ideology.
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11. Ultimately the Nixon/Kissinger policy discredited itself, in part by Nixon's corruption & also inability to win popular support.
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12. In terms of USA foreign policy, the best we can hope for under current system is a prudential realism that eschews adventurism.
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13. Ultimately, Nixon/Kissinger only applied prudential realism to relationship with USSR & China. Weaker countries they felt free to bully
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@emjayemjay The mass murder and war crimes are discussed in other tweets in this thread.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@emjayemjay I called him a war criminal. I don't think I need to elaborate on that.
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