Posted on 05/27/2023 3:47:20 AM PDT by FarCenter
At 100, Henry Kissinger is both hailed for his diplomatic brilliance and condemned for his decisions that cost many lives. He is America’s most experienced statesman and firmly focused on the future rather than the past.
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Why the future instead of the past?
He forced the loss of the vietnam war,
and now he forces Kerry to destroy farming in the USA.
Some stranger’s legacy is if zero interest to me. Zero.
He may have cost us our freedom. He opened the China door. Despise him !
All through the 1970s (when I was a kid), whenever I heard people praise Kissinger, it was because "he opened the door to China."
That was his Legacy. The conclusive evidence of his geo-strategic brilliance. The snowcap summit of his genius.
He is a total globalist.
A 100 year old pissant.
War criminal.
A WEF, “Globalist” Leader. I’ll leave it at that.
God is sure giving him a chance to repent.
Imagine this maniac wanting the Vietnamese people to decide their own fate. It wasn’t Kissinger who subverted the successful Vietnamization of the war and destroyed South Vietnam. It was the democrat congress that completely defunded the process and left the South defenseless. Many, who today will tell you we should have increased our 500,000 man presence there to “win” that war to prevent the first domino from falling 10,000 miles away, can’t understand Putin doing the exact same thing about NATO’s 16th and final domino falling on his border, 300 miles from Moscow. Heaven forbid Kissinger actually thinking that working to break up the world wide communist monolith was a positive. Thank goodness, after 50 years of that misguided policy, the US has driven Russia and China back into each other’s arms.
I was born 4/3/56. Unless you are of my generation the chart below will have little meaning to you. My draft number was 8 in 1976. You better believe I was thankful for Kissinger’s efforts in ending that quagmire before I was sucked into it. Want to hear about my neighbor, Steve Crawford, who at 18 died there, two weeks after his arrival? Kissinger’s Vietnamization of the war worked. The democrat congress blew it up by completely defunding it 1975.
https://www.sss.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1976-Vietnam-Lottery.pdf
Kissinger was both a visionary and very dangerous for America.
Someday I hope we learn just who influrnced whom about Nixon’s China diplomacy. Did Kissinger just follow Nixon’s orders or was that “opening” to China Kissinger’s idea first.
Opening up China to the world was certainly a good thing for the billion or so people living in China.
I’m in favor of spreading the good ideas of America worldwide.
I’m not in favor importing leftists to make America into Leninland nor of offshoring America industrial production.
He should just die already. Hasn’t he caused enough grief?
China wanted to distance itself from the USSR, and the US wanted to separate them as well. Thus, normalization of relations with China was seen as a good thing, even if it meant recognizing China in place of Taiwan.
The Beijing-Washington Back-Channel and Henry Kissinger’s Secret Trip to China
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB66/
THANK YOU!
Thanks for giving a factual historical account of how the Soth Vietnamese government fell. Our leftist’s have repeated over and over and over that the Vietnam war was a military loss. It was repeated enough where most everyone believes it and this is often repeated here on FR.
It was about the domino effect, it was about fighting communism. How anyone here on FR can fret about communist China and then say the Vietnam war was a waste, all in the same breath, is a moron.
We fought the communists in Korea and Vietnam. The stopper was the democrat party, the same ones in love with commie China today. The same ones turning us commie today.
I thought the draft ended in 1973? Too late for me. I still had to spend a year in that hell hole. Easily the worst year of my life.
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