Alice I agree with you on a lot but that's not entirely fair. Thank god they didn't involve nixion.
maybe he'd have decided he could save his presidency by a little shooting with the soviets?
He was in no condition to make good choices that night.
Having just read up on the history of that war, I gotta say it could have been so much worse, I have to think kissinger and the rest did a fairly good job in that matter, arriving at a fairly balanced resolution that lead to the Camp David accords eventually and a cementing of "super-power" cooperation rather than conflict.
I'm a little surprised to find myself agreeing with kissinger, but hey, maybe I'm all wrong?
still, I'd like to see settled boarders and justice for Palestinians but I cant support aggressive war against Israel either.