De Gaulle was now determined to get rid of the “Algerian problem” at the earliest possible date. Like Henry Kissinger with Vietnam in 1973, he was a man in a hurry. Nothing else mattered. “Francisation”, “association”, all such idealistic formulae had long since been abandoned; now any claim to the Sahara must be sacrificed, and the best deal possible accepted for the pieds noirs.

XREF: Parallels Kissinger's approach to Vietnam in 1973 — both leaders abandoned idealistic frameworks for urgent, pragmatic settlement.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1543