The former Sec of State was 100 years old……
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100.
With his gruff yet commanding presence and behind-the-scenes manipulation of power, Kissinger exerted uncommon influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, earning both vilification and the Nobel Peace Prize. Decades later, his name still provoked impassioned debate over foreign policy landmarks long past.
Kissinger’s power grew during the turmoil of Watergate, when the politically attuned diplomat assumed a role akin to co-president to the weakened Nixon….
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His consulting firm said Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut.
Kissinger was a practitioner of realpolitik — using diplomacy to achieve practical objectives rather than advance lofty ideals. Supporters said his pragmatic bent served U.S. interests; critics saw a Machiavellian approach that ran counter to democratic ideals……
Rivers are rising with the crocodile teras cried by CG, but not nearly as high as the rivers of blood brought about by the Butcher of Southeast Asia Mr. Kissinger.
Though the recent arbitrary slaugher of innocent Palestinians by Nutandyahoo and the IDF, plus the renowned low lights achieved by the Butchers of Baghdad and Kabul, Mr Bush, Mr. Cheney, and Mr. Rumsfeld, will surely give Kissass’ level worst a run for its money.
*tears
Mr. K was not one ur favorite guys, eh?
Is CG sad that Kissinger croaked? That’s funny!
U have company SE…..
Henry Kissinger, the Hypocrite
Ben Rhodes: “Mr. Kissinger lived half of his life after he left government. He blazed what has become a bipartisan trail of ex-officials building lucrative consulting businesses while trading on global contacts. For decades, he was a coveted guest at gatherings of statesmen and tycoons, perhaps because he could always provide an intellectual framework for why some people are powerful and justified in wielding power.”
“He wrote a shelf of books, many of which polished his own reputation as an oracle of global affairs; after all, history is written by men like Henry Kissinger, not by the victims of superpower bombing campaigns, including children in Laos, who continue to be killed by the unexploded bombs that litter their country.”
Spencer Ackerman: Henry Kissinger, war criminal beloved by America’s ruling class, finally dies.
He’s a big big fan of Duck Cheney and George’s Bush. I assume Kissinger and that vile bigot General William Westmoreland are in there, too.
Bush I wasn’t so bad……
Cheney was dangerous….
I was referring to Bush II, who with Trump is the smiling face behind the foreign atrocities this side of the millennium.
Them two do NOT like each other….
Actually?
None of the living ex-President’s ‘LIKE” Donald Trump who has trashed the Office of the President of the United States almost daily….