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Henry Kissinger Has Died
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#42Will we ever get to see the Coens' biopic, "Henry Kissinger: Man on the Go"?
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#43Probably as good a time as any to re-link the Mother Jones piece "Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge":
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsbe...
Linked on HN numerous times but largely only discussed here:
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#44I can’t remember if it was Kissinger or Nixon that Hunter S. Thompson claimed required screws to affix their pants to their crooked bodies.
Whatever the case, it was incisive and memorable prose.
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#45I'm surprised at the extreme brevity of this obituary; were they taken by surprise someone could die of old age as young as 100 and didn't have anything prepared? I would have expected at least an brief summary of his career, highlights, major points of controversy, etc. e.g. like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/29/henry-kissin... (and undoubtedly many others). Also, this ruins my "Jimmy Carter v.…
I think it’ll come. Probably within fifteen minutes or so. The BBC usually takes its time (sometimes to the point of absurdity — more than any other news outlet I can think of).
BBC are asleep.
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#46I can’t remember if it was Kissinger or Nixon that Hunter S. Thompson claimed required screws to affix their pants to their crooked bodies. Whatever the case, it was incisive and memorable prose.
It was Nixon. The joke doesn't apply to Kissinger because he wasn't a crook.
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#47I'm surprised at the extreme brevity of this obituary; were they taken by surprise someone could die of old age as young as 100 and didn't have anything prepared? I would have expected at least an brief summary of his career, highlights, major points of controversy, etc. e.g. like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/29/henry-kissin... (and undoubtedly many others). Also, this ruins my "Jimmy Carter v.…
They omitted the war crimes out of "respect for the dead". That left the article fairly short.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Maybe one of the few publications with the integrity to publish those words.
> one of the few publications with the integrity to publish those words
And a symptom of the term being neutered into meaninglessness.
A critical element of war criminality is command. If you don’t command armed forces, it’s difficult to commit war crimes, legally speaking. You can have condoned or collaborated or contributed to them.
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