A brief mention on the NBC News website by Katy Tur and Ali Vitali deals with Donald Trump's meeting, requested by the billionaire, with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The little story makes no mention of Kissinger's past, which includes fomenting mass murder in Vietnam, Cambodia, Angola, Chile, Argentina. In this kind of politically motivated activity, he is not unlike many presidents, prime ministers, and dictators of numerous countries worldwide present and past. One thing that makes Kissinger stand out, however, is his glorification in the U.S. press and political circles, especially among those elites close to or part of the high end power structures running (badly and for themselves) the world.
Bernie Sanders, in contrast with a sickeningly laudatory Hillary Clinton, has said he, unlike Trump, will not, so to speak, kiss the master's ring by meeting with Kissinger, as Sarah Palin did in 2008. Given that Kissinger once dated blonde bombshell B movie actress Mamie Van Doren, I suspect that the only thing impressing him about Palin was her beautiful hair and looks that would be more beautiful for me if I didn't know anything about the contents of her scrambled mind.
"Power is an aphrodisiac," Kissinger said famously; a line accounting, perhaps, for Mamie Van Doren's attraction to him, but also Hillary Clinton's, and Donald Trump's. Here's a man who served in public office, advising Nixon and Ford, overseeing destruction on an epic scale in Southeast Asia, a man who encouraged Pinochet's coup in Chile, the Generals in Argentina, the Angolan civil war. He's responsible for more deaths than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney combined. And, in America, he's a well-respected man. His protege, L. Paul Bremer, was made virtual viceroy of Iraq in 2003 and 2004, leading that country to deepening civil strife as the consequences of his catastrophically foolish decisions generated chaos felt there to this day, with resultant phenomena like the rise of ISIS not making very many Americans wonder about the shitty behavior of their leaders.
American troops are in Iraq. They're called "advisors." They have weapons, uniforms, one of them, a Navy SEAL, was killed recently fighting ISIS forces. This Bush-Cheney war has metamorphosed into a multivalent mess, with on the side chaos in Syria. There is no reason to believe it won't continue to metamorphose into other, yet unforeseen wars.
Hillary Clinton wrote a positive review of Kissinger's 2014 book, World Order.
"His analysis," she wrote, "despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration's effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century."
Kissinger's vision, which includes the practice of mass murder, "largely fits" with Obama's "broad strategy," according to the woman who has a good chance of defeating the human shit stain, Donald Trump. Our choices as Americans in choosing the next president are, to use an understatement, inadequate, if we want this country to not be a callous leader in the strategy of dominance and submission. Why has Obama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (an honor he shares with Henry Kissinger), bombed and destabilized Yemen, leaving it prey to the depredations visited upon it by Saudi Arabia and its allies as they make war on Houthi rebels, but also succeed mightily in devastating and decimating Yemeni citizens, creating an environment as bad, but more underreported about, than Syria? Is Obama's Yemen policy, a subject that never comes up when he's interviewed or when he gives a press conference, part of what Clinton calls the "broad strategy" so in line with Kissinger's ideas about establishing "world order"?
Allowing certain countries, like Saudi Arabia, to fight unruly elements in their vicinity, giving them weapons to do their killing, reminds me of the Cold War-era proxy wars of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kissinger's brain was formed in the heavily anti-Communist atmosphere of the Cold War. He's ninety-two years old. It's unthinkable that he's changed, just as a sixty-nine year old tycoon who's never done any real work will never change, a process, in any case, that's harder and harder to do as one ages.
Kissinger has expressed support for Hillary Clinton's candidacy. The next time you see her face or hear her voice, tell yourself, "A German mass murderer wants her to be president. Why?"
Vic Neptune
No comments:
Post a Comment