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Henry Kissinger: Vietnam Failures 'We Did To Ourselves'

Henry Kissinger, who helped steer Vietnam policy during the war's darkest years, said Wednesday he is convinced that "most of what went wrong in Vietnam we did to ourselves" – beginning with underestimating the tenacity of North Vietnamese leaders.

Offering a somber assessment of the conflict, which ended in 1975 with the humiliating fall of Saigon, Kissinger lamented the anguish that engulfed a generation of Americans as the war dragged on.

And he said the core problem for the U.S. was that its central objective of preserving an independent, viable South Vietnamese state was unachievable – and that the U.S. adversary was unbending....
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