It's a good time to read Robert Dallek's new book, "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power," an agonizing presentation of the difficulty the two men had in figuring out how to pull out of Vietnam and end the war "honorably."

Their problem was familiar to anyone who has been following the war in Iraq: We were losing. Any move to pull out American troops would inevitably be followed (as it was) by a collapse of the South Vietnamese military resistance. Impaled on the horns ...

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