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In reply to the discussion: Poll question: Why hasn't Henry Kissinger died yet? [View all]John1956PA
(3,681 posts)5. "The Case Against Henry Kissinger: The making of a war criminal" by Christopher Hitchens
Published in Harpers magazine, March 2001
Here is an excerpt regarding Nixon's appointment of Kissinger as National Security Adviser in January 1969 after the 1968 sabotage of the Johnson-Humphrey accord with North Vietnam at the Paris Peace Talks:
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This was what it took to promote Henry Kissinger. To promote him from a mediocre and opportunistic academic to an international potentate. The signature qualities were there from the inaugural moment: the sycophancy and the duplicity; the power worship and the absence of scruple; the empty trading of old non-friends for new non-friends. And the distinctive effects were also present: the uncounted and expendable corpses; the official and unofficial lying about the cost; the heavy and pompous pseudo-indignation when unwelcome questions were asked. Kissinger's global career started as it meant to go on. It debauched the American republic and American democracy, and it levied a hideous toll of casualties on weaker and more vulnerable societies.
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More at http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/CaseAgainst1_Hitchens.html
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"The Case Against Henry Kissinger: The making of a war criminal" by Christopher Hitchens
John1956PA
Apr 2014
#5
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."
scarletwoman
Apr 2014
#34