Posted on 12/04/2023 3:48:30 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Henry Kissinger, who died on Wednesday night at the age of 100, was the most enduringly influential secretary of state in the history of the United States. He was also the most controversial. But the influence matters far more than the controversy.
His critics have wasted no time in ignoring the old injunction that no ill should be spoken of the recently deceased. The scurrilous magazine Rolling Stone led with the repulsive headline 'Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies'.
At a time when anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head in the wake of the October 7 atrocities in Israel, we should pause to ask ourselves why for decades hack journalists on both the Left and the Right have used such odious and historically inaccurate language so frequently about Henry Kissinger but never about other American diplomats.
Kissinger's life was a series of extraordinary improbabilities. What were the chances of a German Jew born in Bavaria in 1923 living to be 20, much less 100? More than a dozen members of his family died in the Holocaust.
What were the chances of a teenage refugee who arrived in New York in 1938 - who started his life in America working in a shaving-brush factory - going on to hold the highest office in the executive branch of government for which a foreign-born citizen is eligible?
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But that meme is still very much alive, and we'll see all sorts of nasty language in the comments.
BTW this is a long read, so get a cup of coffee set and sit in a comfortable chair.
ping for later after coffee
Just curious, are you fully jabbed?
Reagan didn’t have much time for Kissinger. He was too busy defeating communism, not trying to live with it.
National Security Memorandum 200, Useless Eaters
I was never a fan of Kissinger, though I do respect Richard Nixon.
There was something that I never liked about him, and I see it now as an incipient globalist mindset. At the time, it never occurred t me that there were people who wanted to be ruled by a single government worldwide.
I guess back then I viewed the Globalists as cranks. They don’t have the status of cranks anymore, even though they are cranks.
But I do not deny Kissinger was influential.
Henry Kissinger knew his assistant, Richard Armitage, was the leaker in identifying Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak (Plamegate), not Scooter Libby.
Kissinger knew it was Armitage yet he let Libby go to prison for leaking the info to the press - a betrayal by a coward.
Kissinger was a globalist. He admitted that believing that the mass mixing of people would bring peace was a mistake. Unfortunately, it’s going to prove to be a multi-billion death mistake.
Ferguson’s just yet another Brit, suck-up operative. (As if his Oxford, Harvard and Hoover Inst. credentials and previous writings weren’t strong-enough clues.)
Henry Kissinger represented everything that has been wrong with America in my lifetime. He passed away at the age of 100. Did he ever have a real job in his life?
The Doc started all of this China sh!t. To hell with him.
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Isn’t Ferguson the “academic” that wrote a study that helped kick off the Wuhan Flu hysteria?
No, that was yet another one, Neil Ferguson:
https://www.aier.org/article/the-failure-of-imperial-college-modeling-is-far-worse-than-we-knew/
Reagan Bump.
Agree with your view.
Well, by splitting off China from the Soviet Union. A lot happened afterwards to grow the issue, and to fail to respond to it.
My biographer feels the same way about me.
(At least I hope so).
Hey, he did give us Klaus Schwab and the WEF.
No surprise you’d support the godfather of globalism and liberal world order and mentor of the WEF bigwigs like Klaus Schwab.
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