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Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam and didn't start or escalate a military conflict. You want to throw all t

Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam and didn't start or escalate a military conflict. You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later?

kartD 10y ago
He's also responsible for numerous foreign policy failures (with genocidal results) as well. He's generally considered a polarizing figure. He doesn't strike me as a deserving candidate
saiya-jin 10y ago
> The death toll is commonly estimated between at 200,000 and 3 million. Kissinger’s tacit support for the massacres in Bangladesh is one of many incidents contributing to his poor record on human rights. such a person should be sent for life in hardest prison or executed, not walking around with such an award. I mean, read the article. he laughs about masacres being done. some days, I feel ashamed to be part of the mankind for what we're doing here or there. today is another day like that
kafkaesq 10y ago
Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam The U.S. left Vietnam because it lost the political will to continue in a mission that most of its citizenry began to see as a lost cause (on the heels of various other troubles on the domestic front). Kissinger, Nixon, and everyone else was just following the music, by that point. [And because he] didn't start or escalate a military conflict. Cambodia? You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later? That's not what the person above you was saying, of course.
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buzzcut 10y ago
It's hard to imagine a description of Kissinger that is more unfounded and, sorry to say, more ill-informed than this one.
guelo 10y ago
He was awarded the Nobel for the failed cease-fire negotiation with Vietnam in 1973, that war dragged on for two more bloody years before USA would admit that it had lost. Meanwhile he was illegally carpet bombing Cambodia, as well as kidnapping and murdering his way through latin america.
- delazeur 10y ago
  > USA would admit that it had lost When Nixon announced this to the nation, his newspeak term for it was "peace with honor in Vietnam." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTiz8F6S5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTiz8F6S5E
wavefunction 10y ago
I downvoted you for making ahistorical claims.
finid 10y ago
> ... and didn't start or escalate a military conflict. So all those killings that took place in South America were not military conflicts.

kartD 10y ago

He's also responsible for numerous foreign policy failures (with genocidal results) as well. He's generally considered a polarizing figure. He doesn't strike me as a deserving candidate

saiya-jin 10y ago

> The death toll is commonly estimated between at 200,000 and 3 million. Kissinger’s tacit support for the massacres in Bangladesh is one of many incidents contributing to his poor record on human rights. such a person should be sent for life in hardest prison or executed, not walking around with such an award. I mean, read the article. he laughs about masacres being done. some days, I feel ashamed to be part of the mankind for what we're doing here or there. today is another day like that

kafkaesq 10y ago

Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam The U.S. left Vietnam because it lost the political will to continue in a mission that most of its citizenry began to see as a lost cause (on the heels of various other troubles on the domestic front). Kissinger, Nixon, and everyone else was just following the music, by that point. [And because he] didn't start or escalate a military conflict. Cambodia? You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later? That's not what the person above you was saying, of course.

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buzzcut 10y ago

It's hard to imagine a description of Kissinger that is more unfounded and, sorry to say, more ill-informed than this one.

guelo 10y ago

He was awarded the Nobel for the failed cease-fire negotiation with Vietnam in 1973, that war dragged on for two more bloody years before USA would admit that it had lost. Meanwhile he was illegally carpet bombing Cambodia, as well as kidnapping and murdering his way through latin america.

delazeur 10y ago
> USA would admit that it had lost When Nixon announced this to the nation, his newspeak term for it was "peace with honor in Vietnam." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTiz8F6S5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTiz8F6S5E

wavefunction 10y ago

I downvoted you for making ahistorical claims.

finid 10y ago

> ... and didn't start or escalate a military conflict. So all those killings that took place in South America were not military conflicts.