Posted on 12/27/2018 8:31:31 AM PST by billorites
Henry Kissinger, now 95 years old, was recently interrupted and abused by New York University students as he attempted to have a public conversation with Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England.
Before the event, 30 student groups, including NYU Against Fascism and Amnesty International at NYU, had demanded that it be cancelled because Kissinger was “the morally reprehensible poster child of U.S. militarism and imperialism.” They seem to have missed the point that he is one of the rare men in public life who has actually risked his life in the fight against fascism.
NYU honorably did not retreat before this attack on free speech, and left-wing trolls came out to abuse and censor.
“You have blood on your hands,” “You deserve to answer to war crimes,” “You have enacted crimes against Chile, against Argentina, against Cambodia, against Vietnam,” “You are a war criminal and deserve to rot,” were a few of the insults thrown at him as handcuffs were dangled under his face.
This grotesque and ahistorical attack is by no means the first. In the 2016 presidential campaign, independent socialist candidate Bernie Sanders attacked Hilary for being a friend of “Kissinger, the war criminal of Cambodia.”
I feel some responsibility for the Cambodia part of such attacks. Almost 40 years ago, in 1979, I published a book called “Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia.” It was a tough book, based on thousands of pages of U.S. government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and hundreds of interviews. Its argument was that massive U.S. bombing and other careless Nixon-Kissinger White House policies toward Cambodia had created the conditions in which the genocidal communist Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975.
Dr. Kissinger had declined my requests for an interview before publication.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The only persons who have ever dealt with Henry Kissinger in the manner he deserves were Monty Python.
“”He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses now and in the past....” she wrote in a review of his book “World Order” that was published in the Washington Post in 2014.”
— BJ’s wife
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-henry-clintons-relationship-kissinger/story?id=39195203
Arrogant ignorance on display, just like the ol’ Nazi brown-shirts. Those guys were a hoot - unless you were Jewish, or polish, or french, or...
“You have blood on your hands,” They use that old meme for everyone not in lockstep with them.
Kissinger is the quintessential Realpolitik. What do you want? He works to get it however is needed.
What kind of morons would heckle a 95 year old?
If we cannot engage in open academic debates about past events, then all human progress stops IMHO.
Love Kissinger or hate him, this sort of stuff is frightening.
Another old Nazi we don’t need to hear from
I am no fan of Dr. Kissinger, but the left-wing students are too separated from reality (drugged or drunk on their ideology if not something else) to sit back and relax and listen to Kissinger explain his side of story.
He worked to open up China and that’s something I would love to hear him expound on from his side of the table.
Its looks to me like the opening up of China has created a bit of a mess in the world today.
NYU, like most of New York City, is an intellectual wasteland situated over a stinking cesspool.
Much of urban America is. And when they gain power they will do more than shout.
You read that right out of the n y u catalog, right? Ha! Just kidding. Colleges will never print honest, accurate catalogs. But any school that would feature that old basturd is beyond hope, imho. It’s disgusting
“Its looks to me like the opening up of China has created a bit of a mess in the world today.”
Rough holiday? YA THINK?
“Letting the fox into the henhouse” is rather apropos. Giving him the keys, in fact, with many greased palms along the way.
Fascism lives!
I’m sure there’s much that would find to disagree with in Henry Kissinger’s view of world, but it’s hard to comprehend the level of pure ignorance and inhumanity that leads one to actively heckle a 95-year-old person who has advised nine Presidents about war and diplomacy. Can you not just shut the hell up, listen and reflect for a few minutes?!!!
Kissinger and Nixon attempted to manage the first great retreat of the US following WWII. Unfortunately, the left succeeded in booting Nixon, and we reaped the whirlwind in foreign policy until Reagan. Nixon was truly was one of the worst US Presidents ever, taking us off the gold standard, which led immediately to inflation, the gas crises and --above all-- opened up the possibility of endless trade deficits and unrestricted capital flows that have cost the US dearly. Plus the EPA and other 'alphabet' instruments of the administrative state.
We are now living through the second great retreat of the US post-WWII, and the left is again trying to remove a Republican President to submerge US sovereignty under transnational elites and impose socialist despotism at home.
We would all be better off if they had been hung for treason in the '60s.
This!
I have written more than once that “[t]hose of us who opposed the American war in Indochina should be extremely humble in the face of the appalling aftermath: a form of genocide in Cambodia and horrific tyranny in Vietnam and Laos after the communists defeated the U.S. in 1975.”
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