Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam The U.S. left Vietnam because it lost the political will to continue in a

Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam 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.