I don't think Nixon and Kissinger were stupid. I think that they were wrong, and they certainly didn't care that their wrong ideas got a lot of innocent people

I don't think Nixon and Kissinger were stupid. I think that they were wrong, and they certainly didn't care that their wrong ideas got a lot of innocent people killed. But I think that they were well read and could show a lot of data supporting their ideas. If our arc of history were merely as bad as the Nixon and Kissinger era, we'd be a lot better off.