Henry Kissinger: This Man Is On The Other Side

American Opinion ^ | June 1975 | William P. Hoar

[Torie]

Is the author a Bircher, or a kook, or both? The description of Kissenger as an anti-American (aka globalist in their twisted lexicon) pro Commie symp typically comes from that quarter, or Paleo Con fellow travelers.

[Grut]

That conclusion is buttressed by considerable evidence, not the least of which was his successful plan intentionally to abandon South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to Communist takeover.

This was hardly a secret, even at the time. Nobody was under any illusions that we weren't running out on SEA; Vietnam was a Tar Baby and it was either quit, or mount an offensive that was politically impossible.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Kissinger was awarded the Nobel rize by leftists for losing the Viet Nam war. He is a Communist spy.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Depends on the definition of other side

[Common Tator]

Richard Nixon was a loner. He always tried to deal with people through a third trusted person. Nixon did not like one on one situations. Nixon had a handful of trusted people and he dealt with everyone else through them.

Henry Kissenger was Nixon's foreign policy negotiator. He was not nixon's council. He was Nixon's negotiator. Henry would say what Nixon told him to say to whom Nixon told him to say it. Henry would get the response and take that back to Nixon.

Henry's total authority was limited to "I'll ask Nixon and get back with you."

The media, believing that Nixon like all Republican presidents was a dunce, invented the story that Henry was in charge and only occasionaly reported to Nixon. That was just not true.

Even Jerry Ford ordered Kissenger around.

Kissenger got this current job because he does what he is told, is loyal, and keeps his mouth shut.

[bert]

...Is the author a Bircher, or a kook, or both...

Haw about a Larochie

[RLK]

Durin the entire Viet Nam period I did not hear one serious criticism by Kissinger of North Viet Nam when they were piling up records of terrorist acts in the South. This left the pro Ho Chi Minh protest movement here unopposed and with the image that no contesting of their position was possible. It strengthened the movement more than the arguments from the movement did. It left us with no moral negotiating position. Kissinger undermined this country's position. I regarded Kissinger as a subversive nearly 35 years ago. I regard him as so now.

[alphadog]

"Is the author a Bircher, or a kook, or both? The description of Kissenger as an anti-American (aka globalist in their twisted lexicon) pro Commie symp typically comes from that quarter, or Paleo Con fellow travelers.

You say that like it is a bad thing...BTW...Henry lick's ChiCom jackboots

[sinkspur]

I regarded Kissinger as a subversive nearly 35 years ago. I regard him as so now.

So? You think George W. Bush is subversive too.

[Common Tator]

Kissinger was awarded the Nobel rize by leftists for losing the Viet Nam war

Kissenger did whatever the hell Richard Nixon told him to do. Crossing Richard Milhous Nixon was a dangerous thing to do. Henry Kissenger certainly never tried it or he would have been fired in a heartbeat.

LBJ lost the war. Nixon ran for office in 1968 on the platform of getting us out of the Vietnam war with honor. When Nixon couldn't figure out how to get out with honor, he just declared victory and get the hell out.

LBJ lost that war when he lost public support for it. Nixon got elected in 1968 on a promise to get us out of LBJ's war. .. not to win it.

You should have voted for HHH. He was for winning the Viet Nam war

[Torie]

Yep, your take on who was the wizard behind the curtain is correct IMO. Nixon considered HIMSELF to be the pro on foreign policy (the China card play was all Nixon's, as was how to extract the US from the Vietnam tarbaby), and while Kissinger did his PR thing to make it seem otherwise, it was all jive. Still, Kissinger did his job competently, and served his nation well.

[RLK]

So? You think George W. Bush is subversive too.

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George Bush is affable, but ideologically unstudied and uncommitted. He's feeble minded, directionless, and out of place in the presidency. If left to his won devices Presidente Fox will probably folloe or replace him.

[alphadog]

"If left to his own devices Presidente Fox will probably folloe or replace him.

Hahahaha

[Torie]

The Vietnam war was a more formal military affair in the Nixon era. The Viet Cong was wiped out with the Tet Offensive. What the place needed was the high tech weapons of today. They were not around, the South Vietnamese lacked elan, and the enterprise simply wasn't worth the body count. The domino theory also proved over time to be bogus. The one horrible legacy of it all was the genocide in Cambodia.

[Tailgunner Joe]

That Cambodia domino really fell hard, huh?

[Torie]

I was thinking of Thailand, which was hyped as the BIG domino.

[alphadog]

"What the place needed was the high tech weapons of today."

That would not have worked...just helped...besides your god Henry puppetmaster wanted us to lose...

[Tailgunner Joe]

Think of Cambodia.

[Enemy Of The State]

"This Man Is On The Other Side "

Theres a no brainer. We have him and good ol Nixon boy to thank for our situation now with China...