(Richard Nixon Presidential Library)
How these two historical episodes overlap — and how they differ.
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‘W
ars are easy to enter into,” the architect of America’s exit strategy from Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, once said, but “very difficult to get out of.” President Richard Nixon agreed. “I had no good choices,” he said of the Vietnam withdrawal. He had inherited a stalemated war, a bitterly divided country at home, an unrelenting enemy, and an ally only beginning to show signs of military and political progress. Given the circumstances, he wondered, “How do you liquidate that war with honor?”
During the long War on Terror, presidents sympathized with their Vietnam-era predecessors. “I think Americans have learned …
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