Excellent personalized take on the man. Here's one Kissinger-related experience that underscored the reality of his realpolitik for me. I bought Kissinger’s book “Diplomacy” when it came out. Got halfway through, when somebody stole it. Honest.
Flashback. The Munich Olympics, of course, was a ghastly precursor of Oct. 7, with the Black September group’s kidnapping (and eventual execution) of the Israeli Olympic team to exchange for the release of a far greater number of Palestinian Israeli prisoners. The entire German mishandling of the attempted rescue (after 1936, sensitivity about appearing overly militaristic) remains a vivid memory as narrated live throughout over several days, by ABC’s Roone Arledge though Olympic correspondent Jim McKay. Israel’s immediate retaliation was the aerial bombing of PLO camps in Lebanon and Syria, killing, I believe, 200 or 300 – sound familiar? The longer term response was Mossad’s patient surgically systematic assassination of each of the kidnapping planners over many years -- fictionalized in the Spielberg thriller movie “Munich.” (If you ever get to screen that, there is a scene toward the end where a group of drunken British revelers is asked if one of them would happen to be Roger Burke? Which he was not.)
It angers me that the teaching of American History is nothing but alternative facts. May Henry Kissinger burn in hell, and never find any marshmallows to roast, the f**king SOB.
Burning in Hell is too good for #Killinger or Nixon...#Killinger lived way too long, continued to have way too much influence, was given way too much credit all the while not being held accountable for his war crimes and atrocities...F**k You, Kissinger...
Nowhere in the mixed bag of Kissinger obits I read was the mention of his prolonging of the Viet Nam conflict, a fact we knew as true. But the families and friends of a generation of dead soldiers know, and I damn the paeans to that man for it.
Sadly, if the lies and false accolades were removed we'd have empty history books and 2 min newscasts. Thanks for great truth-telling!
Excellent personalized take on the man. Here's one Kissinger-related experience that underscored the reality of his realpolitik for me. I bought Kissinger’s book “Diplomacy” when it came out. Got halfway through, when somebody stole it. Honest.
Flashback. The Munich Olympics, of course, was a ghastly precursor of Oct. 7, with the Black September group’s kidnapping (and eventual execution) of the Israeli Olympic team to exchange for the release of a far greater number of Palestinian Israeli prisoners. The entire German mishandling of the attempted rescue (after 1936, sensitivity about appearing overly militaristic) remains a vivid memory as narrated live throughout over several days, by ABC’s Roone Arledge though Olympic correspondent Jim McKay. Israel’s immediate retaliation was the aerial bombing of PLO camps in Lebanon and Syria, killing, I believe, 200 or 300 – sound familiar? The longer term response was Mossad’s patient surgically systematic assassination of each of the kidnapping planners over many years -- fictionalized in the Spielberg thriller movie “Munich.” (If you ever get to screen that, there is a scene toward the end where a group of drunken British revelers is asked if one of them would happen to be Roger Burke? Which he was not.)
It angers me that the teaching of American History is nothing but alternative facts. May Henry Kissinger burn in hell, and never find any marshmallows to roast, the f**king SOB.
Burning in Hell is too good for #Killinger or Nixon...#Killinger lived way too long, continued to have way too much influence, was given way too much credit all the while not being held accountable for his war crimes and atrocities...F**k You, Kissinger...
Nowhere in the mixed bag of Kissinger obits I read was the mention of his prolonging of the Viet Nam conflict, a fact we knew as true. But the families and friends of a generation of dead soldiers know, and I damn the paeans to that man for it.