Henry Kissinger is now saying that "US erred in Vietnam" by not understanding the determination of the North Vietnamese to unite the entire country under their control. He made the assesment at a State Department conference in DC yesterday. He futher noted that "most of what wrong in Vietnam we did to ourselves...". He said that the "central objective of preserving an independent viable South Vietnam state was unachievable". "Americans wanted compromise, Hanoi want victory". This article ends by stating that "historians are coming to the same conclusion"
(Source: "Kissinger says US erred in Vietnam" by Robert Burns of The AP. In The Record on 9/30/10)
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