Ending The Vietnam War
A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War
Foreword
This book deals with the way the United States ended its involvement in the
longest war in its history, the one fought at the greatest geographic distance
from America, with the least obvious relationship to previous concepts of
national security, and the only war in which well-known Americans traveled to
the enemy's capital to express solidarity with the enemy's goals and, on
occasion, to broadcast from there.
No war since the Civil War has seared the national consciousness like Vietnam.
The controversies surrounding it tore the country apart while the war was
raging, and its legacies shaped the national approach to foreign policy for a
generation. Absolute distinctions between moral values and the national
interest, between ideals and power, were invoked and, in time, supplanted the
previous policy disputes of the Cold War period. This near civil war constrained
American policy for long after the war itself was concluded.
But history presents unambiguous alternatives only in the rarest of
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