Quote (Goomshill @ 30 Nov 2023 04:41)
How many statesmen get to live to see their real legacies and own up to their mistakes and own their triumphs and judge their own place in history?
If you look at Kissinger and see some ideologue who represents a worldview you oppose, you're simply wrong. If you've lived with the benefit of the pax americana and can't comprehend the infinite chaos of how history could have unfolded otherwise, you can't judge him as a simple thumbs up or down. Sealing a peaceful coexistence with China, folding the mideast into our sphere of influence, navigated the cold war to its later cold ending, winding down vietnam- you can cry over the eggs he broke, but only someone with no imagination could mistake it as a terrible legacy. At least there was a base intent behind his machinations, a goal and purpose. America securing its own self-interests, peace and disengagement when aggression would have been self-defeating. Its a lecture Kissinger lived long enough to give to deaf ears
He is another Jew they can hate.
Its simply embedded within them