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Henry Kissinger "Regrets"
That is, he regrets the intrusion of moral questions into professional matters best conducted by wise men like himself; regrets, in other words, that human beings everywhere consider him to have conducted himself barbarously in prosecuting the Vietnam war with reckless disregard for human life and health.
According to HuffPost, Kissinger said in Washington this week that
he regretted that what should have been straightforward disagreements over the U.S. approach to Vietnam became transmuted into a moral issue - first about the moral adequacy of American foreign policy altogether and then into the moral adequacy of America."
Next, I suppose that Kissinger "regretted" that irritating way in which the sun keeps rising in the east.
The HuffPost reporter scrambles over Kissinger's typical evasion. Consistently, tenaciously, for forty years, Kissinger has insisted that it would be unseemly to judge his policies--policies that cost the lives of (at least) hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia--as morally debased. And he has done so without losing his wise man status in the eyes of official Washington.Comments
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Show AllSeems like that ultimate outcome was managed pretty well, as you rightfully point out Zelikow's role.
Revisiting 9/11 with eyes wide open, is crucial.
The three great sins of my time:
1. The cover-up of the JFK coup d'état.
2. The cover-up of the 911 Plot.
3. Taking impeachment ‘off the table’.
Good list, WT, but I'd add three more:
4. The illegal installation of George W. Bush as president by the Supreme Court;
5. The shredding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights by imprisoning Americans without due process, etc.; infringement on our rights to privacy; and seizure of property and assets without a conviction in the case of drug- or terrorism-related arrests;
6. The illegal invasion of Iraq, based on lies, and the suspension of our former commitment to not engaging in 'preemptive' wars as Nazi Germany did.
I would add two more:
7 . Neocons controlling the entire national dialogue (including Congress)to permit a sea change in corporate mores and entire off shoring and out sourcing of our entire ecomomy without any consideration of opposing views---to facilitate the total economic destruction of our country and the enslavement of the middle class. Most do not appreciate how all sides of permitted discussion are framed by our media which is not loyal to country. This was and is a deliberate bankruptcy and profiting off of destruction of country, while attacking other countries under false pretenses. This includes the complicit international banks and their wholly owned Federal Reserve Bank---which totally controls our economists (and any isolated one not so controlled, such as Paul Craig Roberts, is not published enough for entry into national discussion. This control of the media and dislogue is paramount and permits the ocver up of all prior crimes (at least to the masses and our politicians and our stupid churches).
8. Big banks/WS, after creating and supporting mindless derivatives (that cannot be
understood or assessed by auditors or reflected in financial statements)----then
setting up and engineering the fraudulent (theft really) financial shakedown---which is not over---as more mines are set to go off. This includes giving the largest banks enough funds to cover for the immmense depreciation of real estate occassioned by most (not employed by government) losing their jobs. The four trillion should have gone to benefit American homeowners---not enrich WS/five biggest banks.
The consolidation/monopoly of mainstream Media, The Corporate/Citizen and the Deregulation of Wallstreet are right up there on the list..The Robert Kennedy murder coupe-D Etat should not be downplayed...Our beliefs in Santa and the Easter Bunny had more credence than the propoganda B.S. taught about this Country and how righteous and pure we are as A Nation...
The consolidation/monopoly of mainstream Media, The Corporate/Citizen and the Deregulation of Wallstreet are right up there on the list..The Robert Kennedy murder coupe-D Etat should not be downplayed...Our beliefs in Santa and the Easter Bunny had more credence than the propoganda B.S. taught about this Country and how righteous and pure we are as A Nation...
They are all fine additions. Just look at how this country has changed since JFK was elected in 1960 -- and I'm old enough to have seen it. Not all the changes were bad, of course -- ending segregation, voting rights, women's equality, sexual liberation, et al -- are all good things, but you can draw a line of corporatist, screw the people & the Constitution, selfish, cynical, immature amorality from LBJ to Richard Nixon to Karl Rove. Not that politicians weren't corrupt before then, but it seemed as if they were better controlled, as was corporate power. Now, anything goes, greed is good, and our media will either turn a blind eye or try to sell it to us as a cure.
You know who, formerly associated with The Nation, will have no comment re. his old nemesis, now that he is licking the soles of Tony Blair's shoes.
Don't forget Kissinger had much to do with the Allende murder in Chile. The man's depravity has no bounds. When he goes, I can only think of the Wizard of Oz: Ding dong, the witch is dead. Trouble is, there is always a new witch to rise up and take the place of the one squashed by the flying house. My nomination: Dick Cheney.
CARPET Bombing of Laos...responsibility for causing the consequences of the Failed Imperial project in Vietnam to SPILL OVER into Laos and Cambodia...
all for the sake of "american HONOR and PRESTIGE" to save face upon leaving vietnam...
the way a drunken mass murdered, after shooting up a bar, tries to 'save face' when leaving, by shooting up some MORE....
it's as if under him the USA hadn't done enough damage to vietnam , to a country already, out of PURE SPITE -- it had to be done to another country...it's like something AMericans often say:
"SORE LOSER".
same as what a US colonel remarked to his Vietnamese counterpart during the negotiations for "ending" the war in vietnam:
American warrior says:
"WE DID beat you in battles...we were better"....
Vietnamese Warrior: "that is IRRELEVANT...you are now leaving".
Hitler said that he regretted that what should have been straightforward disagreements over the German approach to the Jews became transmuted into a moral issue - first about the moral adequacy of German foreign policy altogether and then into the moral adequacy of Germany."
Kissinger is always up to taking about moral adequacy as long as his moral adequacy isn't discussed.
Next, I suppose that Kissinger "regretted" that irritating way in which the sun keeps rising in the east.
Thanks Todd for that. Tyrants r like bad actors, where ever they go they have a mirror where ever they go they only see them selves, not even inwardly. there goes their egos & nothing else.
In Soulidrity.
No terror no torture just truth.
...and I have regretted that sociopathic men like Henry Kissinger have ever been anointed to positions of power in the US...
People like him make me wish Hell was real.
Google NDE hell experience. It seems that a much larger group of people has these 'trips' than has been hitherto acknowledged because the ones doing most of the talking are the 'heaven' trip NDEs. Maybe there is a hell.
as the americans have failed to make our criminals pay for their crimes, the rest of the world will have to.
and that makes all of us accomplices to the crimes.
from what i read, a few years ago, kissinger was in paris, when the french police came with supena. kiissinger quickly packed his bag and fled the country.
bush and blair can't go anywhere outside the US and UK without risking arrest for their crimes.
high-ranking israeli officials are often threatened with arrest while traveling outside israel.
Bush...Blair...Kissinger and so many others. May the spirit of Ulrike Meinhoff seek them out...
"Ain't no life nowhere!"
–(Jimi Hendrix, "Manic Depression.")
There are so many war criminals who are Americans that one is reminded of what was once said about Capitalism:
"What happened is that we have forgotten that capitalism even exists. It has become invisible because there is nothing else to see."
– (Sylvère Lotringer )
The same can be said about war criminals in America. Or Israel. Where does one begin?
An honest search for war criminals in, for example, Washington,D.C. would decimate huge swaths of the political population– leaving it a veritable 'ghost town.'
America 'itself' is a war crime incarnate. America 'searches' but cannot find what has always existed directly in front of it, and what is constitutive of its very essence.
Truly the most vile form of American 'exceptionalism' is how America points the finger at anyone except what 'it' itself 'is.' American 'foreign policy' is categorically a war crime before even being implemented, as if by 'default,' in advance of itself.
When the apotheosis of barbarity is finally reached in America, who can say there will not be a series of Commemorative postage stamps unapologetically dedicated in serial travesty–and with great pride– to its war criminals.
The first one will be of Henry Kissinger– toasting a magnum of Tattinger Brut Champagne at an elegant Manhattan soirée– with a backdrop of B-52 bombers discharging their ordinance over Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam war.
Blood harvest. Hail a great American! There should be statues of him everywhere so the people may recognize themselves and what they have so unapologetically wrought.
–(Kim)
What if, at the last minute, Kissinger found 'Religion' and could pay out enough up-front money to be reincarnated as a Corporation?
Kissinger and Cheney would be a good combo in a small cell. It depends on who wants to be on top I guess, but they could screw each other all day long and not involve us.