RIP Henry Kissinger

[t-bob]

The Washington Post - long article. It was some interesting events & snippets from his memoirs.

I don’t think Kissinger needed List Bucket - He went to do myriad affairs for 80 years

wapo.st/3QTI9Ks

[theevan]

RIP to a globalist warmonger.

[Dub]

There are some people who truly make the world a worse place. Kissinger was one of them. I only wish the world could be made better by his passing. I didn’t wish him dead but I’m not saddened by the news.

[Cosmic Wonder]

I wish he had been tried for war crimes and hung.

Mike

[t-bob]

I’ve always liked Henry - clever, intelligent, witty, brilliant, and furtive and deceitful- and charming
If I saw him, I talk to him for a coffee. But I wouldn’t talk with Tricky Dick

Obviously, he was a political person, and he got some money and some power and actresses

Henry helped with the world - United States & China
Nobel Award

Henry was a little unprofessional unprincipled and amoral

And was accommodated respected public servant.

Henry and Richard was a two of a kind

If I had been president, I would used HK as the Secretary of State

So do you think Henry is talking with Berra or Burns ?

[Cornflake]

I agree that Kissinger and Nixon were a perfect match. I'll stifle any other comments.

[howard lee]

Nov 29, 2023 23:51:43 GMT -5 Cosmic Wonder said:

I wish he had been tried for war crimes and hung.

Mike

< hanged >

[paleo]

RIP Mr Kissinger.
I met Henery when he was Secretary of State. We had a nice visit in his office at Main State, in DC.

[drlj]

Depending on which account I read, Kissinger was either a war criminal or a respected elder statesman.
It no longer matters, I suppose.

[dradtke]

I believe it was about Kissinger- who always had a young beautiful woman on his arm - that I first heard the line, "Politics is an aphrodisiac for ugly people. "

[Dub]

Nov 30, 2023 1:36:30 GMT -5 t-bob said:

So do you think Henry is talking with Berra or Burns ?

No, I think he’s busy teaching Lucifer a few new tricks.

[Marty]

Nov 30, 2023 7:04:30 GMT -5 howard lee said:

Nov 29, 2023 23:51:43 GMT -5 Cosmic Wonder said:

I wish he had been tried for war crimes and hung.

Mike

< hanged >

That too. 

[t-bob]

Wrote by The Rooney Report

PASSED INTO HISTORY: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who served the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as a controversial shaper of international relations, died at home in Connecticut at age 100.
A Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who spoke with a heavy accent, Kissinger went to Harvard before becoming a member of the Harvard faculty and then moving on into public life. He was a world player like few that exist today. Kissinger was brilliant yet considered at times to be amoral and devious. He ordered the 1969 bombing and of neutral Cambodia without congressional approval, destabilizing the country and leading to a takeover by the murderous Khmer Rouge.
Kissinger once told the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci: ““Americans like the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse, the cowboy who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else. This cowboy doesn’t have to be courageous. All he needs is to be alone, to show others that he rides into the town and does everything by himself.”
The owlish and awkward Kissinger was also a social player, dating glamorous women, including the actress Jill St. John.
Kissinger and Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho shared the Nobel Peace Prize for the secret negotiations that resulted in the 1973 Paris agreement that ended the Vietnam War. His famous “shuttle diplomacy” after the 1973 Middle East war helped stabilize relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
In February of 1972 he made a secret trip to China that opened relations with the US, producing the engaged yet testy diplomacy that exists between the two countries today, including the contested agreement that Taiwan is part of China.
He was persuasive, powerful, and vengeful. When the NY Times in 1971 published the infamous Pentagon Papers revealing the political and military failures of the Vietnam war, he collaborated with illegal wiretaps of journalists, State Department employees, and even members of his own staff to find the leaker.
Henry Kissinger said he operated “in a world where power remains the ultimate arbiter.”

[t-bob]

I've seen a lot of articles now.........

"what Nixon and Kissinger wrought"
Who was "two men gunslingers in the Oval Room"?

I liked Butch & Kid - Paul and Robert
(1976) 4 NEWman & SUNdance - Prez & VP
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