50 Years After Hanoi’s Easter Offensive of 1972, Timely Reflections on America’s ‘Loss of National Will’ in Vietnam
‘The United States has a history of tiring with foreign wars and military commitments, and then accepting withdrawals that in retrospect had bad outcomes,’ one conference participant observed.

A conference harking back half a century to a climactic time in the Battle of Vietnam conjured bitter memories and intimations of an uncertain future for Americans caught up in global conflicts — whether they like it or not.
Speaker after speaker spoke critically of the “Paris Peace” reached by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho in January 1973 after a year of fighting and then talking that had decimated the North Vietnamese but sapped the will of the Americans to win.
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