To have been clearer, should Chris Hayes have quoted Kissinger's famous definition of soldiers,

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10. Is there much to be gained by attacking Kissinger these days?

I don't hear him held up as an conservative icon much. I don't see how this would help Hayes - all the present-day people who are attacking him would just have said "Kissinger was wrong too". It doesn't matter if they think that or not - unless you have people from this century saying what Kissinger said, going after someone from 40 years ago is not that productive. It's like people don't try to make Nixon the symbol of the Republicans any more - a generation and a half later, there's not much mileage in it.