No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam

Nixon truly fooled the world

How sad that the world can be so misled by the most powerful people in control, especially when they are our own American heads of state. Nixon and Kissinger should go down in histroy as war criminals due to their willful and deceiptful extension of the Vietnam War that not only increased the killing of our own young men and women, but also the killing of innocent Vietnamese men, women and children. How sad that Kissinger has not been brought up on charges of murder. Nixon is probably where he belongs.

A Study of Politcal Deceipt and Deception

Having been a college student just out side of DC during the time frame this book is accounting for made it all that much more interesting. But if you have any interest in this period of time this is the book for you! This is the 10th book I have recently read pertaining to Vietnam and this is about the best. An easy and engrossing book. It will educate you about Vietnam, Nixon, and Kissinger and how very unfortunate we were to have had people like Nixon and Kissinger. Kissinger should hang his head in shame.

The Terrible Truth Regarding The Nixon/Kissinger Collusion Against The American People!

This stunning, smart, scholarly and incisive book neatly unravels the clever pseudointellectual reconstruction that many neo-conservative authors have bought into regarding the conduct of the Vietnam War by the Nixon administration. While few of us would quarrel with the idea that Nixon accomplished much on the world scene, we still must protest the idea held by many that he was so severely hampered in his prosecution of the war by a combination of internal and external constraints that he was unable to execute the compassionate, intelligent, and objective policies toward southeast Asia that he and Henry Kissinger had so painstakingly devised. Rather, we learn here that his Vietnam policies were as full of the 'sturm und drang' contradictions seen elsewhere in his administration. For Nixon, prosecution of the Vietnam War was just another case of 'politics as usual', another opportunity to pit conservative against liberal, hawk against dove, for personal aggrandizement and short-term political gain. Much of what he did and planned were based on domestic political considerations and the fear of being seen as weak on communism. he looked Le Duc Tho eye to eye, and Nixon blinked. For this he never forgave himself, and he was willing to do anything, lie to anyone, dissemble, connive, and betray the American people just to win in Vietnam. Far from flying with the angels, both Nixon and Kissinger bloodied their hands by instituting policies that resulted a dramatic increase in both American and Vietnamese casualties, instituting policies that continued the escalation of the war and its extension to new areas such as Laos and Cambodia. Using the conflict in Vietnam as a key element to engage both the Soviet Union and Communist China, Nixon seemed to lose sight of the need to deal with the specific factors propelling the war even as he became increasingly engaged with it, thinking he could simply 'bomb' the North Vietnamese into capitulating regardless of the mounting evidence to the contrary. At times his conduct of the war was not only irrational and extremely counter-productive, but also criminal and unnecessary, as with the incursions into Cambodia in 1970, which spurred an avalanche of student protest and increasing political resistance at home. indeed, much of the documentary evidence related here shows his entire strategy of seeming withdrawal while simultaneously secretly escalating the air war tells volumes about the levels of deceit and cupidity the Nixon administration had toward the war in Vietnam. Nixon's presidency is a study in contrasts, a reflection of the internal contradictions propelling the President himself. Nixon is truly one of the most fascinating of our modern presidents, a remarkable amalgam of his genius, daring, and all-too human flaws, a man so haunted and tortured by his interior demons that he spent the balance of his post=presidency years attempting to reconstruct the truth about his conduct of the presidency and the war in Vietnam. Here is revealed a man so anxious to gain the presidency that he outrageously influenced the President of South Vietnam during the 1968 presidential campaign to disengage from an effort by sitting President Lyndon Johnson to end the war. How can we expect a man capable of such perverted motives to do 'the right thing' to save life and treasure by bringing the war to an 'honorable' conclusion? Instead, we find the same irrational, pseduo-macho tendencies as led to the debacle of Watergate perpetrated onto the war in Vietnam, resulting in thousands of additional deaths and casualties. This is a wonderful book, one that lays bare the truth about the self-serving efforts by Nixon, Kissinger, and a number of over-eager neo-conservatives to reconstruct the truth about the conduct of the war in Vietnam in order to salve their structure of beliefs and also lay blame for the war at the doorsteps of sixties liberals. I found myself engaged and excited by the author's inte

A Story Needed To Be Told

No Peace No Honor is not just a book about the general history of the Vietnam war, it is a study of betrayal. Through many newly and declassified documents, Berman sheds a new light on the betrayal of an US ally, the South Vietnamese. This book takes to the deep understanding and discovery of the secret negotiations between Kissinger and the North Vietnamese Communists (Le Duc Tho, Xuan Thuy...) and the crafted Paris Peace Accord. Mr.Berman also reveals the duplicity the South Vietnamese government had to deal with, from both the Communists and its US ally. Again, this is a study of betrayal of an ally, of the truth. 'No Peace No Honor, Nixon, Kissinger and the Betrayal in Vietnam' tells what its title says.

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