1. I'll confess I have mixed feelings about Henry Kissinger.
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2. Kissinger of course is Kissinger/Nixon. Contrary to popular mythology,
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3. There's no question Kissinger is a war criminal: the coup in Chile, expansion of war into Cambodia, throttling Bangladesh, etc.
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4. More broadly, Kissinger/Nixon knew Vietnam war was lost in 1968 but kept it going for fiction of "peace with honor."
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5. So, given the horrorshow of Nixon/Kissinger foreign policy, which cost millions of lives, is there anything good to say?
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6. Kissinger/Nixon foreign policy only looks good in comparative perspective: of all Cold War leaders had most realistic sense of limits
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@MichaelMcGough3 Eisenhower was the best of the Cold War president (although Iran and Guatemala). A very low bar.
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