by William F. Jasper, The New American:
Henry Kissinger, the much-celebrated eminence grise of the globalist Establishment, marked his 100th birthday on May 27. Media fanfare, commentary, bouquets, and brickbats poured forth as expected. Kissinger — former national security advisor and secretary of state, political savant, and globetrotting adviser-at-large to the world — is both revered and reviled by constituencies across the political spectrum like few other “elder statesmen” in history.
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There are many on the far Left that despise and castigate him at every opportunity, with their underlying (or sometimes overt) criticism being that Kissinger’s alleged anti-communist tendencies, combined with his amoral pragmatism and power lust, caused him to support right-wing dictatorships and to assist the overthrow of left-wing governments. However, for the Wall Street crowd, the Permanent Government in Washington, and the elite “mainstream” media, Henry is a darling like no other. Presidents, prime ministers, dictators, movie stars, billionaires, and Fortune 500 CEOs seek to bask in his supposed brilliance. Governments, universities, and prestigious organizations shower him with accolades.
On the other hand, MAGA conservatives — the GOP contingent not completely under the sway of RINOs, neocons, Fox News, and National Review — are more likely to place Kissinger somewhere between Machiavelli and Beelzebub in history’s catalog of villains, even if the specific reasons for their antipathy are somewhat foggy. The fogginess is understandable, considering that for the past 50 years “Dr. K” has been the recipient of relentless whitewashing by the Deep State’s public relations machine, while evidence of his criminal deeds has been sent down the memory hole. Those old enough to recall his trail of treachery are dying off, while younger generations have been exposed only to the globalist hagiographies of “St. Henry” or the leftist demonologies of “Henry Diablo.”
“An American patriot like none other.” – Huh?!!!
Even in-the-know “conservative” publications such as The American Spectator joined in the chorus of happy birthday cheerleading for Dear Henry (“Henry Kissinger Turns 100”), calling him “An American patriot like none other.” The Spectator’s Francis P. Sempa writes that “above all, Henry Kissinger … has been an American patriot.”
Really? Sempa, like many other Kissinger devotees, relies on and quotes from Dr. K’s “magnificent memoirs” to demonstrate Henry’s supposed love for America and utter disdain for the hate-America Left, who traduce everything good about our country while siding with our enemies (such as the communist Viet Cong during the Vietnam War).
While all memoirs tend to be self-serving, Kissinger’s ponderous memoir trilogy — weighing in at over 5,000 pages! — takes self-serving to a new level, along with historical revisionism. It is easy for him to make himself look heroic by contrasting himself with the communist SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) radicals who went to North Vietnam and shouted “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the Viet Cong are Going to Win!” The ranting, seething, screeching Marxist mobs are easy foils that the likes of Kissinger, Nixon, and Lindsey Graham adroitly exploit (with the help of their media allies) to falsely portray themselves as the guardians of America.
So, here, in the interest of correcting the gaping Orwellian memory hole in the public record of Herr Kissinger, we will provide an abbreviated indictment of a few of his abysmal deeds that properly should earn him everlasting ignominy, not the fawning honors that are regularly bestowed upon him.
Communist China: Betraying Its People, Building Our Enemy
British historian Niall Ferguson, the man Kissinger selected to write his official biography, the man who has been given unfettered access to troves of previously undisclosed files and documents, says, “I’m constantly reminded of how many crucial decisions were taken in the period when Kissinger was in office, but nowhere I think has his role had more profound consequences than in China.”
Moreover, Ferguson importantly notes that Kissinger “was the only one individual who was involved at every juncture of US-China relations, from the very beginning right down to the present day.” From the very beginning right down to the present day.
In other words, if you’re looking for the architect most responsible for the past half century of American policies that have transformed Communist China from a hopelessly backward, mass-murdering, totalitarian, Third World regime into a modern, nuclear armed, technologically advanced, mass-murdering, totalitarian, First World economic and military power, look no further than Henry Kissinger.
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