Hitchen's beef with Kissinger long predates the Clintons. He wrote a long book about Kissinger, "The Trial of Henry Kissinger." I never read it but understand that it's mostly about his actions as Secretary of State under Nixon.
>Hitchen's beef with Kissinger long predates the Clintons. He wrote a long book about Kissinger, "The Trial of Henry Kissinger." I never read it ...
Thanks. I knew LaRouche
hated Kissenger. Hitchen's
hatred sounds as bad.
I'll have to see if
my local library has
a copy around:
"The book is best understood as a prosecutorial document--both because Hitchens limits his critique to what he believes might stand up in an international court of law following precedents set at Nuremberg and elsewhere, and also because his treatment of Kissinger is far from evenhanded. The charges themselves are astonishing, as they link Kissinger to war casualties in Vietnam, massacres in Bangladesh and Timor, and assassinations in Chile, Cyprus, and Washington, D.C. [!?] After reading this book, one wants very badly to hear a full response from the defendant. Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair and The Nation, is a man of the Left, though he has a history of skewering both Democrats..."