He continued, rather escalated the war on becoming president. Under Nixon and Kissinger's government alone the American war machine used on Indo-China more TNT than the total expended during world war 11. Their excessive violence included the secret bombings and invasion of Cambodia, the mining of Haiphong harbor, the indiscriminate and unbelievably heavy Christmas bombings of North Vietnamese cities and villages, and repeated attempts at nuclear black mail. Anthony Lake, now the national security advisor to President Clinton, was an aide to Kissinger at the time. When he and a colleague protested the illegal attacks on Cambodia, security taps were put on them.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
What they did do was to transform Israel from an ordinary client state into a strategic ally in the Middle East. American arming of Israel began under them. Israel felt free thereafter to proceed with its ambition of colonizing parts and dominating all of the Arab world. The nearly total dispossession of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, the multiple invasions and occupation of Lebanon, annexation of Golan and Jerusalem, expulsion and incarceration of thousand upon thousands of hapless people had for the coming decades the full material support of Washington. The claim that Nixon and Kissinger initiated a process of arms control is not new.