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The Grievous Return of Henry Kissinger – An Analysis
The gods protect us, Henry Kissinger is back!
By Professor Lawrence Davidson
Henry Kissinger was President Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State. He also held the latter position under President Gerald Ford. While it would be unfair to characterize him as someone who never gave a piece of good advice (he did encourage Nixon to engage in Detente with the Soviet Union), his record weighs heavily on the side of unwise counsel. As we will see he is back in exactly that role, plying bad advice that, in this case, could further erode America’s already messed up intelligence agencies.
Kissinger was originally an academic. His doctoral dissertation was on the diplomacy of two early 19th century statesmen, Britain’s Viscount Robert Castlereagh and Austria’s Prince Klemens von Metternich. These men were major players at the great Congress of Vienna that took place after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
At that meeting Metternich argued for returning Europe to its pre French Revolution political status. Pursuing that impossible end, he backed repressive policies and regimes. One gets the impression that the history of Kissinger’s public service was, at least in part, an effort to achieve the stature of a Metternich. Toward this end Kissinger would pursue “realpolitik” which, more often than not in its American manifestation, entailed the backing of repressive policies and regimes.
Here are some of the things Kissinger espoused:
the bombing of North Vietnam in order to achieve “peace with honor;” support for the murderous, Fascist regime of Ernesto Pinochet in Chile, and the equally bloody military dictatorship in Argentina; acquiescence in the annexation of East Timor by the Indonesian dictator Suharto, which was followed by genocidal massacres; acquiescence in the Serb and Croat wars against the Bosnian Muslims; support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and last but certainly not least, active lobbying for the admittance into the U.S. of the ailing Shah of Iran (yet another American supported dictator) which led immediately to the hostage taking of U.S. diplomats in 1979 and the continuing animosity and tension between America and Iran. I saved this piece of bad judgment till last because it of a piece with Kissinger’s latest excursion into playing the great statesman by pushing folly.
So what would Dr. Kissinger have us do now? Well, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Kissinger has sent a letter to President Obama “urging him to commute the prison term of Jonathan Pollard, who is serving life term for spying for Israel.” Kissinger claims that he has consulted with others such as former Defense Secretary Weinberger, former Secretary of State George Schultz and former CIA Director Woolsey (all of whom are supporters of Israel) and found their “unanimous support for clemency compelling.” Kissinger’s letter follows on a lobbying effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has made an official request to Obama for the same granting of clemency.
Here is what Netanyahu had to say, “Both Mr. Pollard and the Government of Israel have repeatedly expressed remorse for these actions [of spying], and Israel will continue to abide by its commitment that such wrongful actions will never be repeated.”
There is something almost childish in this approach. Caught with Israel’s hand in the cookie jar, the spies and their handlers say ‘Oh I’m sorry. If you commute the punishment we promise to be good from now on.’ Actually, in the world of espionage, such promises aren’t worth the paper they are written on. Thus, in 2004 the FBI caught another government employee,, spying for Israel and using the Zionist American lobby AIPAC as the conduit through which to pass the stolen information. So much for promises of future good behavior.
What Kissinger and the rest Pollard’s supporters seem not to find compelling, or even noteworthy, is the fact that ever since the 1987 trial that sent Pollard away for life, the career officers in the American intelligence services have quietly threatened mass resignation if this Zionist spy went free. Keep in mind that ever since George W. Bush and his neo-conservatives wrecked havoc with the CIA in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, the one Kissinger so obligingly supported, the intelligence agencies of this country have found their morale at the sub-basement level. If Obama commutes Pollard’s sentence it will be yet another blow to their professional well-being.
But what does Dr. Kissinger care about a bunch of government employees?
In his realpolitik version of reality neither government servants nor ordinary citizens are worth much. Here are a couple of Kissinger quotes to show what I mean. Having helped condemn the Chilean people to16 years under the murderous rule of Ernesto Pinochet, Kissinger rationalized the decision this way, “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.
The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” And, as to the career analysts in the various intelligence agencies, most of whom really are experts in the countries they study, Kissinger just dismisses that expertise as inconsequential. “Most foreign policies that history has marked highly,” he tells us, “have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.” Well, that is all the “experts” except Dr. Kissinger.
The real Henry Kissinger, who implausabily received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, borders on being a war criminal. That should tell us what his advice is really worth. President Obama would be a fool to listen to a man whose blood stained career should have long ago come to an ignoble end.
About the Author: Professor Lawrence Davidson teaches in the Department of History at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He can be reached via email at ldavidson@wcupa.edu. Or visit his web site at www.tothepointanalyses.com
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No Kissinger doesn’t “border on being a war criminal”, he crossed that border and has been smugly ensconced in his chateau of culpability since his illegal bombing of Cambodia and Laos. Everything since has been icing on the cake.
There is an especially hot place in hell reserved for evil of his magnitude.
correction penumbra,their isn’t a place “hot enough in hell” for this pig. and that chateau of culpability of which you speak it must be full up what with all our so called wonderful patriotic statesmen.
was/is Obama an MKULTRA victim..he never appears to speak to anyone, just turns his head from side to side and flatly delivers lines….Maybe his history of gaps and unsurety of whereabouts etc has something to do with being prepared for a task not dissimilar to the one he has now…that of being a puppet. Therefore would this be a basis for being surrounded by those described as criminals of genocide and more, with Kissinger being offloaded onto the White House for a paricular message to be driven home?
It is encouraging to note that there are numbers of career officers in the nation’s intelligent services who serve so honorably in America’s national interest. It should continue to be emphasized that only certain “elements” within th CIA, FBI and other agencies have been involved in the 9/11 false flag attack and it’s subsequent cover up. In fact, most of the intelligent services experts and personnel, active and retired, should be considered loyal and trustworthy patriots who have and continue to sacrifice life and blood for this nation.
Patrick
In my humble opinion”…most of the intelligence service experts and personnel, active and retired,should be considered traitors who have and continue to sacrifice life and blood of this nation.
I agree. The alphabet soup agency evolution sprang from the criminal seed of the OSS and has been the most globally prolific purveyor of drugs, arms, covert establishment and overthrow of brutal dictators, and terrorism along with its psycho counterparts (most particularly MI6 and Mossad) for far far too long.
Their is nothing in them that hearkens to the founding principles of this nation nor to any adherence to the most fundamental principles of justice and morality.
Just a runaway behemoth of global criminality for power and profit.
Patrict except for the outing of a very loyal,dedicated and experienced operative named valery plame. that fuckin’pig rove should be pollards butt buddie.
one good thing he won’t need makeup if he trys out for penquin part in the new “Batman”
This thing, of evil deeds, should crawl back to his hole and stay put for another twenty or untill he expires what every comes first…..
@ Jon Jon
The fact that he was appointed to the 9-11 Investigative Commission ensured that the ultimate findings were guaranteed to have nothing to do with truth or fact, neither of which is a part of his makeup.
Bear in mind Henry Kissinger and his ilk, which are more than just a few Israeli firsters masquerading as American diplomats and representatives of the American people, are committed “Sayans”, gatekeepers, men with an Israeli mission. Do not expect them to give up until their last breath, until their coffins are nailed and buried 6 ft. beneath this earth.
I had long ago lost any respect or esteem for the Nobel Prize Committees, when they appointed Henry Kissinger a Peace Prize.
Henry Kissinger is the only living War Criminal I know who has ever received Peace Awards.And gets away with it! Orwell would just love it!
Henry Kissinger has never made an appearance of this nature without reason, usually evil. It cannot be good! Wanna wager Pollard is going to be released ? The Jewish State gets what the Jewish State wants, America be damned!
Yes Debbie unfortunatly you are correct. However there is still time and chance for the real North American people to take back the reins of the power controlling this “evil cluster”. Do not believe for a second that the American peoples have given in to this cluster….Not by any means…. this is far from “OVER”.
And really ….believe it, the “FAT LADY WILL SING” loud and clear.
hey, Jon Jon
Wish I could be as optimistic as thee after watching this short clip…
http://www.aipac.org/2841.asp
whew!
Wow yes that is difficult to watch indeed very shameful, blatant, exposure…really please everyone watch this ….
However as obummer said this is the life blood …and it is all in the same room …..wow ….
Americans “Real Americans” are the life blood of America …
they are greater thatn 9000 they will have the last say it is only time that is the road leading to this “Last Say”
Thanks for that Debbie
More horrendous than return of Dracula.
Since taking office, Obummer has either ‘listened’ to or appointed just about any and everyone diametrically opposed to the original platform he was elected on. Why be surprised if this hustler adds a war criminal to his list of respected confidants.
What does it really matter what we think about this CRIMINAL Kissinger? Our so-called government will do what it want’s anyway! We see this every day!
Hell this criminal should be no-where near our government, but yet our so-called President still lets him in his office! From what I see if your a Zionist in this country you have more rights than a REAL TAX PAYING US CITIZEN! Then again ILLEGALS have more rights than tax paying citizens do now-a-days!
Someone please tell me why this fool has any say at all?
Why is this country still giving BILLIONS of our tax dollars every year to Israhell when we can’t even take care of our own people, especially our own Veterans? Israhell IS NOT our alli! Want proof, look up the USS Liberty! Look up how they REFUSE to sign the Nuclear Arms Agreement, and how it is against US Policy to support ANY country with nuclear weapons that will not sign this agreement! Need I go on, cause I can?
One of these days our people will grow a set and take back our country!
Until then DO NOT support so-called Reps. such as McCaskill(Mo), Bond(Mo), Carnahan(Mo), McCain(Ar) because they DO NOT help veterans! Don’t believe me? Ask me for the proof!
Disabled US Army Veteran,
Marc C. Daniele
m6c9d2000@yahoo.com
Herculaneum, Mo.
Kissenger destroyed my youth and ended it in the bud for many of my comrades. He is evil. His alleigences have not been patriotic to the US. They have always been with Israel and big money. this guy has more blood on his hands than most. Funny how war criminals in the service of the U$A never find themselves in court.
God has sent Kissinger to U Bum Ba to remind the american nation wake up and take
control of your destiny. Otherwise He will have this ‘Doctor’ perform such surgery
on you all that Hell will look like Heaven to you all.
about time god started to make sense, to people other than Bush..
you and i know what we had to do to stay alive to come back to what we had before we were indoctrinated into defending the country where we live no questions asked we learned and we accomplished. i am not going to do the bla-bla=bla whether you were Air force, NAVY MARINE or ARMY we leared and followed orders if you did not follow,you were OUTSTED honorable or humenatarian, mrdical which we ALL were or the worst dishonorable this was the worst because now you had to explain WHY. in reality you did not but you had to have your sayso. I dont know how i did this but it took me 23 years in the FUCKING MILITARY to understand my longtime GOAL was to get a pension from the GOVERMENT i accommplished my time from 1971 to 2010 i witnessed what every branch went through from a 17 carbon copy to the new COMPUTER SAVY. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY FORGOT WAS HOW DO YOU DEPROGRAM WHAT YOU BUILT INTO THAT HUMAN BEING BE: IT WHITE.BLACK,BROWN,RED,OR YELLOW. THE DEPROGRAM WAS FORGOTTEN BY THE SAME PEOPLE THAT TRAINED ALL OF US. WHETHER ARMY. NAVY,MARINES,AIR FORCE AT THAT TIME I DONT KNOW IF COAST GUARD WAS INVOLVED, ALL I KNOW IS THAT I WILL PROTECT WHAT IS DEAR TO ME AND MY FAMILY AND I HAVE BEEN TRAINED FOR THAT AFTER 23 YEARS IN MILITARY LIFE. I HAVE FAITH AND BELIEVE IN MY RED , WHITE, AND BLUE COUNTRY. WHEN YOU SERVE FROM 1971 TO 2010 YOU HAVE HISTORY UNDER YOUR BELT.
THANKS AND GODS SPEED BE WITH US ALL.
““I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.” : spoken like a true Zionist..
“Henry Kissinger, who implausabily received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973,- war criminal. ” : he and Obama both..
stick together, take care of each other and kick the bstrds in the b-lls if you get the chance..
Kissinger is second only to Cheney who, as time will disclose I feel sure, will be exposed as one of the most devious dealers in history. In the current climate of course, you could be the devil himself and the American people would still think you were a hero. Such is apathy, a national tradition and something of a US badge of honour, the Congressional Medal of Apathy.
Chile is what I remember of Kissinger and for that, may he rot in hell. But seeing his other claims to fame above by Lawrence makes me even more aware of what a man he was. As a partner to the famous Nixon, a misfit if ever there was one, his absolute disregard for justice and fair play and total lack of care for human life makes him an inhumane person, but probably still highly regarded by the same apathetic public who seemingly cannot discern between decency and evil.
But I guess that if one wanted to be analytical when has there been any senior US public servant that hasn’t turned out to be a criminal in one way or another. The worst aspect about looking too hard at history, US style, is that no one seems to have any values. Right now, the veto in the UN Security Council last month would have justified an impeachment, if impeachment means a criminal act with lies, deceit and working against the best interests of the US.
But back to the hated Kissinger; he probably is no worse than anyone at the top for fourty years and with no decent candidates on the horizon that presents with any values, it will be more of the same.
I never cease to be amazed that the Rosenberg’s were executed for their parting with secrets in relation to the atomic bomb. What Pollard has done is equally as bad and yet he has a grafter such as Kissinger and probably half the Congress agitating for his release. He should be executed just to show the arrogant Israelis that the US does have the courage of its convictions, for once in its life.
Unlikely though. Obama, as a last servile gesture to Israel, his employer for the past two years, will pardon Pollard at the end of his term in 20 months or so before he retires to Hawaii with two pensions, one from the US and a bucket load of cash from Israel.
Care for a wager?
At which time the weak old US can gird its loins for another feckless Republican President who will look around for yet another war to fight because the subservience to Israel and the military/industrial complex is so entrenched in the American way of life that nothing will ever change from here on in.
Come on, China.Right now, you are the world’s only hope as a buffer against the moral bankruptcy, arrogance and insidious nature of the world’s #1 superpower, Israel and it’s puppet, the once great USA.
When are we gonna quit lettin worn out old farts run this country most of these so called leaders are droolin on there bibs and wearin depends crist we really need term limits so may be some fresh ideas can be heard instead of the same ole tired crap protect big money and fight wars for oil, ya know their grand kids are not fighting anywhere,too busy spending all that money these old POS steal from us the tax payers
Where ever Henry goes in the world war is sure to follow.
I swear, sometimes I think Obama is either naive, blind or just plain stupid. He does surround himself with some of the worst advisors in the world. He takes advice from people who would use the government for their own gain. He may not be presidential material. Maybe he should have been a councilman or stayed a congressman. Now he’s taking advice from Kissinger and that’s going to lead to a whole lot of crap. I’m sure Kissinger is still the warmonger he was.
“The rancid resurrection of Henry Killsinger”
This creature is living proof that evil never dies. Now, I don’t believe in hell but in Killsinger’s case I will make an exception. If there is a hell, I truly hope that will be his final place of residence. Look out Satan, Henry the K is coming at ya!
A number of years ago I was listening to NPR coming home from work. The subject was a book written by H.R. “Bob” Haldeman. In it Haldeman describes how Killsinger and Nixton conspired to use the bombing campaigns against Hanoi to ensure Nixton’s victory in the next election. Sure enough, Nixton was re-elected. Thanks to the schemes of that bloviated rat a few thousand more American boys and who knows how many innocent Vietnamese people were senselessly slaughtered for Nixton, through the continued war in S.E. Asia.
Damn him to hell! As for Pollard, he should face execution. Let israhell scream its collective head off. Who gives a shit.
Kissinger belongs in the cell next to Pollard…each criminals cell with a window facing the gallows, constructed to send them forthwith to “their father the devil”.
WHY ARE MY COMMENTS NOT BEING ACCEPTED?
I did not include any web links. They just disappeared.
Trying to repost gives me the “You seem to have already posted this..”….blah, blah
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TO HELL WITH POLLARD
KISSINGER TO LEAD MISSION TO PLANT FLAG ON URANUS
Prof Davidson
Your outstanding article glosses over the disingenuous aspects of a highly educated individual…..by omission.
An individual who self admits and is documented to the dedication of the very fiber of his existence, one motivation. Dedicating a lifetime to eclipse every genocide despot in recorded history. Actually, in a dead-heat race with Hillary Clinton Madeline Albright, and Jr. Bush.
Mr. K speaks very loudly, by his actions and his actions alone, a supreme war criminal. Cannot travel with first getting clearance from the Department of State. Quoted witnessed and documented by numerous publishers, books, editorials, newspapers, etc.
Confirmation by rabid dog Mr. Henry Kissinger at the pinnacles of global supreme war against humanity extraordinaire exposes his fanatical self contempt and lack of self dignity by addressing the US military establishment as
“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in his published book “The Final Days, 1976.”
Further, he sirens a personal ultra contempt for humanity. Documentation self admission and confirmation by him personally, no one else.
Subsequently, fanatical US/ZPC/CFR Mr. Kissinger further adds that Americans are “Useful Idiots” and “Useless Eaters.” see Kissinger Food Plan Genocide
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266114.shtml
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/food_for_peace/kiss_nssm_jb_1995.html
http://www.rense.com/general80/qutes.htm
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Write down everything “KiKI” advises and do a 180 until the old Sith Lord figures out he’s been had.
O’le Henry looks like a box.
KISSINGER:
GREATEST MACHIAVEL TALMUDIC “MASTER-RACE” WAR CRIMINAL OF MODERN TIMES.
HE LOOKS,TALKS AND THINKS LIKE A RAT.
HE DESERVES TO DIE LIKE MUSSOLINI:
HUNG UPSIDE DOWN. BY THE BALLS!…
1) In his book review for Amazon of “The Trial of Henry Kissinger” by Christopher Hitchens, John Miller wrote:
“Christopher Hitchens doesn’t mince words when it comes to Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and national-security advisor: Kissinger deserves vigorous prosecution “for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture.” The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a masterpiece of polemics; even readers who don’t agree that its target is an emanation of “official evil” will appreciate the verve and style brought to Hitchens’s fiery brief. (“A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.”)
The book is best understood as a prosecutorial document–both because Hitchens limits his critique to what he believes might stand up in an international court of law following precedents set at Nuremberg and elsewhere, and also because his treatment of Kissinger is far from evenhanded. The charges themselves are astonishing, as they link Kissinger to war casualties in Vietnam, massacres in Bangladesh and Timor, and assassinations in Chile, Cyprus, and Washington, D.C. After reading this book, one wants very badly to hear a full response from the defendant. Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair and The Nation, is a man of the Left, though he has a history of skewering both Democrats (he is the author of a provocative book on the Clintons, No One Left to Lie To) as well as Republicans (Kissinger).
At the root of this latest effort is moral outrage, and a call for Americans, of all people, not to ignore Kissinger’s record: “They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else,” writes Hitchens. “If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame.” –John J. Miller
As a good and loyal Zion Talmudic Mafia Don, Kissinger is leaning with all his gait (Sic) on Obama adding his name to the Zios infiltrated in the US institutions and Academia, who have been mobilized to intercede in favor of a Jonathan Pollard, a spy, responsible for the worst damage ever done to US National Security, with Israel selling the stolen classified info to the URSS.
2) “Both Mr. Pollard and the Government of Israel have repeatedly expressed remorse for these actions [of spying], and Israel will continue to abide by its commitment that such wrongful actions will never be repeated.” is Netanyahu quoted to have written in his request to Obama to free Pollard…
Above statement is the BIGGEST CYNICAL JOKE of the millennium!
Israel has now THOUSANDS of “Jonathan Pollard” managing the US Govt, ALL its Institutions, including Congress-Senate-Treasury-Fed Reserve-DHS-Supreme Court and the Pentagon… The Zion Talmudic Mafia Dons OWN the USA body and soul.
Kissinger is maybe the biggest war criminal overshadowed only by Stalin, Ben Gurion Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon. He is a Terrorist strictu sensu.
Thank you Professor for this report.I would like to think that the obama I voted for will just say to kissenger; don’t let the door hit ya,where the good lord split ya!But alas and alack, obama to kissinger; show me the money! Pollard will walk free and possibly get a medal of freedom or at the very atleast a big movie deal and a seat on fox news. Obama doesn’t have the temerity or will to act on his convictions. Atleast the convictions we the voting public was sold to get the weasel elected. It seems the bigger the theif,fraud or war criminal you are you have a place at the table with obama. And that my friend is a big problem with progressives who follow the goings on here at the homeland and abroad for relection in 2012. I hope like hell a progressive will challenge this regressive puppet of the military industrial/fascist kabol that is destroying our country.
Quick! Somebody alert Batman! The Penguin is on the loose!
Will the penguin perpetrate the proclivity for performing more heinous acts of psychotic madness? Tune in.
“Holy shit, Batman, what are we gonna do?” Exclaimed Robin, the boy blunder.
” I know exactly what to do,” replied Batman…”We’ll have to lure him into traveling to the middleast, thinking that he’ll be able to commit another of his heinous crimes against humanity. The when he least expects it…the Joker(Ahmaddinnerjacket) will strike him down in his tracks.”
Does this spell the end for the Penguin? Will batman’s plans turn into reality? or will the Penguin escape to live another day in which to inflict his evil upon humanity?
Tune in next time when we hear the penguin say..” I’m going to turn the entire world into my version of hell.”
The Penguin….LMAO!
I got a real dark vibe looking at his left hand..
But the real thing many have over looked is a widely shown 60 mins back on september 9th 2001. This 60 mins archived show probably has been hidden from the view due to the two day later event that helped Kissinger get away.
see the 60 mins show was an hour long expose of the plan to have Kissinger INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES THE CHARGES WERE TO BE FILED IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN
NEW YORK ON SEPTEMBER 13th 2001 BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT TUESDAY KEPT THURSDAY FROM HAPPENING and since Septemeber 11th 2001 NO ONE HAS EVER MENTIONED WAR CRIMES AGAINST KISSINGER AGAIN!!
Wow, he sure is a bloated pig! I have a feeling that people who are waking up all over the country, sparked by the rallies in Madison, sparked by the protests in the ME, are searching the internet for truth and will come upon this information. The grand awakening has begun and it’s only a matter of time before more people stumble upon these sites in their journey. It’s a chain reaction, I know, because it happened to me after 9/11.
How is it that creatures such as this stay alive while the innocent die in numbers?