As the title says, who is Henry Kissinger?
I read this from Wikipedia:
“Kissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. He has also been associated with controversial policies, such as the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a “green light” to Argentina’s military junta for their Dirty War, and U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War despite a genocide being perpetrated by Pakistan.”
It sounds like he was a bad guy, but I know there’s more to the story than that with the collective hate I see for him here on Lemmy.
Short version - war criminal that a lot of rich and powerful people love because he got them what they wanted.
Long version - Do you have 8 hours? Here’s behind the bastards podcast. It’s 6 episodes, 1:20 each. https://youtu.be/hPPW9eQnOCc
I see you too are a person of culture.
PBS does a pretty good job of being objective and fact-based. Here’s a PBS article on Kissinger that touches on some of his more controversial policies and activities.
Negotiated the end of the vietnam war is a fucking TAKE
He was a bad guy.
Who lived to be 100. Can’t forget that part.
Without any justice or plain old simple punishment done on him.
involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a “green light” to Argentina’s military junta for their Dirty War,
but I know there’s more to the story than that with the collective hate I see for him here on Lemmy.
Both sides bad, right? Sometimes things are just the way they look on the surface.
Without all the editorializing here, I think the important part is he was extremely influential in American foreign policy for decades. I checked the Wikipedia article and presumably it’s accurate but that understates now influential he was and for how long
He was great, meaning effective at what he did. My summary of all the rest posted here is that he never seemed to let morals get in the way of serving his goals or that of his president or country. He may have driven a lot of these atrocities, but we all hopped in the car and rode along
The guys on the Dollop podcast summarise him well.
“He’s the Forrest Gump of war-crimes”
Johnny Harris released a video today about him on YouTube. I found that pretty informative, I didn’t know much about Kissing either.
I know it’s just autocorrect but you still gave me a lol
I too had never heard of him before today.
I wish I still hadn’t.
Uthe Monty Python did a song on him, you can look that up.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!
- literally every member of c/noncredibledefense
