Kissinger's Legacy Still Ripples Through Vietnam and Cambodia
Briefly

America should not torture itself on the view that it could have had a settlement earlier if their presidents had been more willing, Mr. Kissinger said during a 2016 event at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. They could not have had a settlement, except for selling out and withdrawing unconditionally, which nobody would have supported.
As for the bombing campaign, he wrote in his memoirs that it was a decision North Vietnam's actions had forced upon President Richard M. Nixon's administration.
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