Posted on 06/16/2018 7:19:00 AM PDT by gattaca
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump could go down in history as a "very considerable president."
"Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen," Kissinger said on CBS's "Face The Nation."
"So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office. At the same time, extraordinary opportunity."
Kissinger said every country now has to consider two things.
"One, their perception that the previous president, or the outgoing president, basically withdrew America from international politics, so that they had to make their own assessments of their necessities," he said.
"And secondly, that here is a new president who's asking a lot of unfamiliar questions. And because of the combination of the partial vacuum and the new questions, one could imagine that something remarkable and new emerges out of it."
When asked if he has a sense about the president-elect's emerging foreign policy vision, Kissinger said he and the billionaire appear to operate differently, but offered some praise for the issues Trump has raised.
"I think he operates by a kind of instinct that is a different form of analysis as my more academic one," Kissinger said.
"But he's raised a number of issues that I think are important, very important. And if they're addressed properly, could lead to good — great results."
He’s a phenomena that the USA hasn’t seen since the Founders.
A real patriot, not a fake one.
Reagan comes to mind.
His approach is much like Teddy Roosevelt’s.
December 2016 interview of Kissinger.
I’d be curious about
His impressions now!
His approach is much like Teddy Roosevelt’s.Like TR, he's definitely a force of nature.
Fortunately, he seems to be more of a populist and less of a progressive.
So far.
Somewhere Sarah Palin is smiling.
I’ll never forgive Kissinger for what he did to the innocent people of Cambodia. What a despicable man.
I know people have used the Andrew Jackson analogy a lot, but Teddy Roosevelt is who I think about as well. Probably a bit more "conservative" than Teddy, but the same swagger and bravado.
If Teddy Roosevelt hadn’t had been President, we’d have never gotten in involved in either World War.
I’ve been sort of waiting for Mr. Kissinger to chime in on the events in Singapore. Certainly, he must have an opinion.
Then I remember that he is what? 94 years old. He may simply not be up to any public declarations about policy.
Same with others of that generation on the other side, people like Harry Belafonte. Harry is now 91. As hateful of America and of democracy, you know he would speak out if health allowed.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/henry-kissinger-north-korea-praise-trump-kim-meeting/
https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/the-trouble-with-kissingers-north-korea-advice/
...Henry Kissinger is known to have been advising President Donald Trump on China and North Korea issues over the past year...
Hitler would have eventually gotten us involved in WWII regardless of who the presidents were or had been.
Hitler would never have gotten into power without the US declaring war on the Kaiser in WWI, promising the German people an honorable surrender, then the Brits and French eviscerating them at Treaty of Versailles.
It was Wilson who was president during WW1. TR had nothing to do with it.
If the Kaiser’s Grandmother had slipped on a banana peel in 1879, we never would have entered WWI or WWII.
Unless you consider Andrew Jackson one of the founders, then I have to disagree. IMO Trump's presidency bears a greater resemblance to Jackson's than any other.
It was Wilsonian globalism that brought us into WWI, a bad war and a bad decision. There was absolutely no need for us to get involved. Wilson’s support for Marxism and the advance of communism was the underpinning for our engagement. European hatred of Germany did not allow the German people to rebuild their nation after losing the war. This continued hostility toward Germany is what necessitated WWII.
As a Marxist, Hitler came to power. The earliest treaty between Stalin and Hitler was broken when Germany sought to overthrow Stalin’s regime, replacing German autocracy with
Russian. Stalin became the enemy of my enemy but he was still our enemy.
After the war Roosevelt’s communism prevented him from standing firmly for the interests of the free world against the tyranny of Stalin.
It was TR who sabotaged William Howard Taft’s re-election in 1912, allowing racist Woodrow Wilson to win the election. It was TR’s foreign policy of expanding US influence around the world that caused us to be in places like the Phillipines, and to actually have to pay attention to Japan’s Expansionism.
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