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> Kissinger helped establish a ceasefire in Vietnam (although it didn't stick).

Nixon was elected in 1968 with Kissinger as his National Security advisor, and they assumed their posts in early 1969. That means he held off an immediate US withdrawal from Vietnam for 6 years - and that was the only legitimate course of action.

While it's true that he did spend time negotiating a potential cease fire / armistice, he and Nixon continued an illegitimate war of aggression in a foreign country, trying to prop up a puppet regime.

But that's not all: Kissinger initiated the US campaign in Cambodia, in which, over several years, hundreds of thousands were killed. See:

https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=2412




The point is more that he did actually negotiate some kind of ceasefire, whereas... Obama?




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