Kissinger and Nixon’s positive achievements

Ryle Dwyer (US foreign policy under Kissinger cost thousands of lives, March 16) presents an interesting case for the prosecution against the former US secretary of state.

Unfortunately, the accusations against him are both old, and not very fair.

It is disingenuous to say the United States simply aborted a North-South Vietnam unification referendum in 1956. The North, which had a bigger population, had been taken over by a Communist dictatorship, and so a nationwide referendum would have been heavily loaded in its favour.