It is with a not-so-heavy heart I note here that diplomat or war criminal Henry Kissinger, 100, just proved to the world that the good truly die young.
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Kissinger's reign as the prime architect of U.S. foreign policy waned with Nixon's resignation in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal. Still, he continued to be a diplomatic force as secretary of state under Nixon's successor, President Gerald Ford, and to offer strong opinions throughout the rest of his life.
While many hailed Kissinger for his brilliance and broad experience, others branded him a war criminal for his support for anti-communist dictatorships, especially in Latin America. In his latter years, his travels were circumscribed by efforts by other nations to arrest or question him about past U.S. foreign policy.
His 1973 Peace Prize - awarded jointly to North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho, who would decline it - was one of the most controversial ever. Two members of the Nobel committee resigned over the selection as questions arose about the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia.
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He also had some awareness of or involvement with Nixon's sabotage of the 1968 Peace Talks and the aftermath. Of course, Nixon stretched out the Vietnam War for another four years before he and Kissinger came up with an agreement to stop the war which was almost identical to the one LBJ tried to implement. Kissinger and Nixon should have been tried at The Hague for this alone. All those people died just so Nixon could get elected and re-elected.
At least Jimmy Carter has outlived this piece of excrement.
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