Anyone Heard of This "Kissinger" Guy?
Dear God. Remember how the other day I said I was thinking of crawling under the bed until Henry Kissinger came back to power? I woke up this morning, checked the news, and what do you know--Hank's in Istanbul. If only I'd known I had the power to summon these forces at will! I shouldn't have lowballed my opening bid. Next time I'll threaten to crawl under the bed until Metternich restores the Concert of Europe.
Kissinger thinks the missile shield will force Iran to restart its negotiations on its nuclear program. I guess. Me, I just hope it intercepts missiles.
What amused me even more about this article was the copy editing. It seems Henry Kissinger is no longer a household name. The Turkish press feels the need to identify him. "Kissinger, a highly influential former diplomat, said ... " Can you imagine that there's now a generation of readers in this region who have no idea who Henry Kissinger is? Can you imagine how he feels reading that?
For the young'uns--especially the ones in Turkey--knock yourself out with this blast from the past:
... every effort is being made by conspirators in our government to keep America from again becoming independent of foreign fuel by pushing ahead with development of our coal and nuclear capacities while virtually stifling development of new oil and gas reserves.
Syndicated columnist Paul Scott reports: "The world-minded Kissinger hopes to use his proposal for an 'oil price floor' and offer 'to sell a large chunk of America' to the major oil producers to convince them to formalize their support for the 'new world order.'" It is sort of a perpetual hijacking plan whereby we pay tribute continually to the major petroleum interests,** who are guaranteed a minimum price regardless of supply or demand; they are offered "security" and a piece of the action here in return for their petrodollars; Americans are assured only of a high price for fuel and that the wealth of all but our tax-protected Insiders will be "redistributed" to those with low incomes, domestically and abroad.
International bankers would of course have a field day tending to such a daisy-chain. But the objective is not mere looting for profit. It is much more sinister. Paul Scott warns: "In Kissinger's opinion the merging of the standards of living is necessary to create the climate in industrial nations like the U.S. and West Germany for support for the formation of a loosely-knit world government. His plan provides for the eventual merging of the Communist and free world systems in the 1980s." That, after all, is the Grand Design.
Henry Kissinger is supported in managing all of this by an able staff of conspirators who, like him, have ties to both the Communists and the Establishment Insiders. Kissinger brazenly admits approving a number of security risks over the objections of worried officials. The security dossiers of U.S. Ambassadors he sent to anti-Communist Chile and the Republic of China, for instance, contain reports linking both men to the underground Communist apparatus. Our Ambassador to Portugal boasts to the Comrades with whom he is working that America is not a capitalist nation, but well on the way to being a Socialist Welfare State, a development he finds to his liking. Boris Klosson, Kissinger's top man at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), has not only been identified as a K.G.B. contact but arranged the return of Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald from Moscow despite his known K.G.B. connections- The subsequent assassination of President John Kennedy was coordinated, according to an important defector in Britain, Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin, by the K.G.B.***
For everyone else, this thread is now open for your favorite Kissinger joke or conspiracy theory.
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Apr '11
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No joke or conspiracy theory, just thinking of Belushi doing him to Aykroyd's Nixon on SNL. "Yes, Mr. President. Whatever you say, Mr. President." Now I have to go look at YouTube.
Oct '10
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Claire, Do you think Dr. Strangelove was based on Herman Kahn or Henry Kissinger or both?
Jul '10
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Henry was an obscure foreign affairs advisor to Nelson Rockefeller when Dr. Strangelove came out in 1964. Ergo, Kissinger must have been based on Dr. Strangelove.
Mar '11
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Save Metternich for later. Do Reagan next.
Nov '10
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For some harsh criticism of Kissinger, and of the realist school in general (and also of neoconservatives) from someone definitely not a conspiracy theorist (and who, I might add, is definitely not an isolationist either), people might want to do a search for "Kissinger" in the "Search Inside This Book" of Codevilla's Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft. See esp. p. 91.
Not saying I unqualifiedly endorse Codevilla; perhaps there's truth to both sides...
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Robert Lux: For some harsh criticism of Kissinger, and of the realist school in general (and also of neoconservatives) from someone definitely not a conspiracy theorist (and who, I might add, is definitely not an isolationist either), people might want to do a search for "Kissinger" in the "Search Inside This Book" of Codevilla's Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft. See esp. p. 91.
Not saying I unqualifiedly endorse Codevilla; perhaps there's truth to both sides... · Oct 13 at 3:53am
I keep meaning to write about international relations theory, a term I generally loathe because there's no theory, there's only history--but somehow every time I sit down to do it, I get sucked into reading old theory texts and thinking, "Maybe there is a theory." As for Kissinger, he almost exists in a world beyond theory. It seems strange to me that there's a whole generation now for whom he's simply meaningless--not controversial, not iconic, not even worth a protest when he flies into town. Just "an influential US diplomat."
Sep '10
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Hard to believe no one has alluded to The Trial of Henry Kissinger and A Student's Guide to International Relations.
May '11
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I'm still unhappy that he trashed Harold Nicholson about the Congress of Vienna.
Jun '10
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I've not always agreed with Kissinger (I think his new book on China is all wrong), but I've always liked him.
Oct '11
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I'm young enough for Kissinger to be more myth than man. A fascinating person oddly likable and admirable, at times infuriating. He's one of those people I don't think we'll ever fully pin down. This is my favorite recent Kissinger parody...
http://youtu.be/hNqZ7qsWpJc