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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 3:13 AM UTC

rajup wrote: post #58

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Post by mjfl » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 3:13 AM UTC

emchammer wrote: post #75

mjfl wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Jews are often accused of dual loyalty. Kissinger would have been livid at the suggestion that he placed Jewish interests above the American national interest.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 3:14 AM UTC

koolba wrote: post #82

Does this mean the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have been resolved? If so, he probably died of boredom.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 3:14 AM UTC

galacticstone wrote: post #76

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Post by rgmerk » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 3:15 AM UTC

master_crab wrote: post #62

slibhb wrote: post #53

In foreign policy you have to walk a line between moralism and realism. Kissinger was too much a realist. But moralism has its dangers too, as we saw with the Bush (Iraq, Afghanistan) and Obama (Libya) administrations. At any rate, it's hard to think of anyone who is more responsible for the continued post-war global dominance of the US than Henry Kissinger.

FDR, Eisenhower, Truman. Hell even Clinton is more responsible for post war global dominance than Kissinger.

Any number of Fed chairs. Whoever started DARPA.

America's global dominance, and China's challenge to it, depends far more on economic heft than the machinations of diplomats, even ones as ruthless as Kissenger.