I read this book immediately following reading McNamara's in retrospect, and I think the book givse more answers to the war and showed that Nixon was the only vietnam-era president who fought the war smartly. His invasion of Cambodia was justified to break communist strongholds in Cambodia, and his bombing campaigns against the north crippled North Vietnam's ability to launch invasions, and his detente policy with russia and china made sure and proved that Vietnam's two biggest allies would not get involved with Vietnam.I do agree with Nixon's apology against the anti-war intellectuals. The civil rights intellectuals and militants who tried to color the US involvement as captalist colonialism was absolute hogwash. His final statements on the third world war as being fought in the third world and how multinational corporations could help develop the economies and bring jobs to them is an excellent counterargument to those who see it as capitalist oppression, whereas Marxist revolutions bring about slaughter and limitation of freedoms.
