You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later?
The U.S. left Vietnam because it lost the political will to continue in a mission that most of its citizenry began to see as a lost cause (on the heels of various other troubles on the domestic front). Kissinger, Nixon, and everyone else was just following the music, by that point.
[And because he] didn't start or escalate a military conflict.
Cambodia?
You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later?
That's not what the person above you was saying, of course.
such a person should be sent for life in hardest prison or executed, not walking around with such an award.
I mean, read the article. he laughs about masacres being done. some days, I feel ashamed to be part of the mankind for what we're doing here or there. today is another day like that
When Nixon announced this to the nation, his newspeak term for it was "peace with honor in Vietnam."
So all those killings that took place in South America were not military conflicts.