At least Nixon had a strategic objective: to flip a China into an anti-Soviet alliance. What a minute. Do you think Chirac might be using China against us? Nah, Sen. Kerry would never permit it.
My point was to address the article's self-righteous indignation over Chirac's willingness to put Tienemen Square behind him. But Nixon had the gall to toast Mao Tse-tung, the architect of the greatest mass genocide ever known. Mao concedes first place to no tyrant, not even Stalin, and we all know what a thorough murderer he was. In a numbers comparison, Hitler was an amateur.