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He has from a position of incredible power with a clear knowledge of the consequences freely and directly aided and argued for genocide multiple times. His acti

He has from a position of incredible power with a clear knowledge of the consequences freely and directly aided and argued for genocide multiple times. His actions go well beyond simple war-crimes. There are very few individuals in the history of the world that have participated in more than one genocide. Henry Kissinger is one of the rare individuals in human history who is responsible for multiple genocides. In the quote above, “Yahya hasn’t had such fun since the last Hindu massacre!”, Kissinger seems delight and reveal in about his crimes against humanity. He spent his life chasing the power necessary to perform such crimes and when given such power was happy to use it for hideous purposes. Kissinger from the Nixon tapes: “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union,” he added, “it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”[0] In one tape Nixon compares the genocide in Bangladesh to the Holocaust, Kissinger goes along with the comparison but argues that the genocide should still be aided[1]. [0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/nyregion/17nyc.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/nyregion/17nyc.html?_r=0 [1]: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/looking-away-from-genocide http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/looking-away-from-ge...

whack 10y ago
“And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union,” he added, “it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.” Wow, that is just shocking. Originally, I thought he was just another racist like Nixon. But for a Jewish holocaust survivor to make a comment like that... he seems to fit the textbook definition of a psychopath.
- throwanem 10y ago
  Or maybe just a man who felt a stronger loyalty to his country than to his ethnic group.
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- AJ007 10y ago
  Suggested reading https://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civilization/dp/1416572465/ https://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civiliza...
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Suggested reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3673094/How-Chamberlain-started-the-war.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/...
    - AJ007 10y ago
      The book is not editorialized, it is just an collection of events. I'm not sure how the reviewer came to those conclusions. If a reader had never heard anything about World War 2 perhaps it wouldn't be the first book to recommend or even number 10. Given the exhaustive pop culture coverage in movies along with endless documentaries and books one would assume reading Human Smoke in context would not leave a reader believing that Hitler was desperately trying to avoid war.
      - throwanem 10y ago
        > The book is not editorialized, it is just an collection of events. I'm not sure how you regard these as mutually exclusive. Are the events that go into the collection not chosen? Might they not be chosen with an eye toward suggesting conclusions which the one doing the choosing isn't quite bold enough to espouse outright, preferring instead to be able to say "well, that's just your interpretation" in reply to whatever criticism may come?
- tomjen3 10y ago
  >The concentration camp of Ahlem was built on a hillside overlooking Hannover. Barbed wire surrounded it. And as our jeep traveled down the street skeletons in striped suits lined the road. There was a tunnel in the side of the hill where the inmates worked 20 hours a day in semi-darkness. >I stopped the jeep. Cloth seemed to fall from the bodies, the head was held up by a stick that once might have been a throat. Poles hang from the sides where arms should be, poles are the legs. “What’s your name?” And the man’s eyes cloud and he takes off his hat in anticipation of a blow. “Folek… Folek Sama.” “Don’t take off your hat, you are free now.” >And as I say it, I look over the camp. I see the huts, I observe the empty faces, the dead eyes. You are free now. I, with my pressed uniform, I have lived in filth and squalor, I haven’t been beaten and kicked. What kind of freedom can I offer? I see my friend enter one of the huts and come out with tears in his eyes. “Don’t go in there. We had to kick them to tell the dead from the living.” >That is humanity in the 20th century. People reach such a stupor of suffering that life and death, animation or immobility can’t be differentiated any more. And then, who is dead and who is alive, the man whose agonized face stares at me from the cot or Folek Sama, who stands with bowed head and emaciated body? Who was lucky, the man who draws circles in the sand and mumbles “I am free” or the bones that are interred in the hillside? >Folek Sama, your foot has been crushed so that you can’t run away, your face is 40, your body is ageless, yet all your birth certificate reads is 16. And I stand there with my clean clothes and make a speech to you and your comrades. >Folek Sama, humanity stands accused in you. I, Joe Smith, human dignity, everybody has failed you. You should be preserved in cement up here on the hillside for future generation[s] to look upon and take stock. Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire. What differentiates you and your comrades from animals[?] Why do we in the 20th century countenance you? >Yet, Folek, you are still human. You stand before me and tears run down your cheek. Hysterical sobbing follows. Go ahead and cry, Folek Sama, because your tears testify to your humanity, because they will be absorbed in this cursed soil, dedicating it. >As long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it. Nothing done for you will ever restore you. >You are eternal in this respect. That is his own discription[0] that he wrote shortly after being part of a US army group who liberated a concentration camp. Kissinger lost 13 family members, including his grandmother to the camps. [0]: http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194615/kissinger-on-liberating-ahlem-concentration-camp http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194615/kissinger-on-liberati...

whack 10y ago

“And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union,” he added, “it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.” Wow, that is just shocking. Originally, I thought he was just another racist like Nixon. But for a Jewish holocaust survivor to make a comment like that... he seems to fit the textbook definition of a psychopath.

throwanem 10y ago
Or maybe just a man who felt a stronger loyalty to his country than to his ethnic group.
- deleted 10y ago
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AJ007 10y ago
Suggested reading https://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civilization/dp/1416572465/ https://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civiliza...
- throwanem 10y ago
  Suggested reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3673094/How-Chamberlain-started-the-war.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/...
  - AJ007 10y ago
    The book is not editorialized, it is just an collection of events. I'm not sure how the reviewer came to those conclusions. If a reader had never heard anything about World War 2 perhaps it wouldn't be the first book to recommend or even number 10. Given the exhaustive pop culture coverage in movies along with endless documentaries and books one would assume reading Human Smoke in context would not leave a reader believing that Hitler was desperately trying to avoid war.
    - throwanem 10y ago
      > The book is not editorialized, it is just an collection of events. I'm not sure how you regard these as mutually exclusive. Are the events that go into the collection not chosen? Might they not be chosen with an eye toward suggesting conclusions which the one doing the choosing isn't quite bold enough to espouse outright, preferring instead to be able to say "well, that's just your interpretation" in reply to whatever criticism may come?
tomjen3 10y ago
>The concentration camp of Ahlem was built on a hillside overlooking Hannover. Barbed wire surrounded it. And as our jeep traveled down the street skeletons in striped suits lined the road. There was a tunnel in the side of the hill where the inmates worked 20 hours a day in semi-darkness. >I stopped the jeep. Cloth seemed to fall from the bodies, the head was held up by a stick that once might have been a throat. Poles hang from the sides where arms should be, poles are the legs. “What’s your name?” And the man’s eyes cloud and he takes off his hat in anticipation of a blow. “Folek… Folek Sama.” “Don’t take off your hat, you are free now.” >And as I say it, I look over the camp. I see the huts, I observe the empty faces, the dead eyes. You are free now. I, with my pressed uniform, I have lived in filth and squalor, I haven’t been beaten and kicked. What kind of freedom can I offer? I see my friend enter one of the huts and come out with tears in his eyes. “Don’t go in there. We had to kick them to tell the dead from the living.” >That is humanity in the 20th century. People reach such a stupor of suffering that life and death, animation or immobility can’t be differentiated any more. And then, who is dead and who is alive, the man whose agonized face stares at me from the cot or Folek Sama, who stands with bowed head and emaciated body? Who was lucky, the man who draws circles in the sand and mumbles “I am free” or the bones that are interred in the hillside? >Folek Sama, your foot has been crushed so that you can’t run away, your face is 40, your body is ageless, yet all your birth certificate reads is 16. And I stand there with my clean clothes and make a speech to you and your comrades. >Folek Sama, humanity stands accused in you. I, Joe Smith, human dignity, everybody has failed you. You should be preserved in cement up here on the hillside for future generation[s] to look upon and take stock. Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire. What differentiates you and your comrades from animals[?] Why do we in the 20th century countenance you? >Yet, Folek, you are still human. You stand before me and tears run down your cheek. Hysterical sobbing follows. Go ahead and cry, Folek Sama, because your tears testify to your humanity, because they will be absorbed in this cursed soil, dedicating it. >As long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it. Nothing done for you will ever restore you. >You are eternal in this respect. That is his own discription[0] that he wrote shortly after being part of a US army group who liberated a concentration camp. Kissinger lost 13 family members, including his grandmother to the camps. [0]: http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194615/kissinger-on-liberating-ahlem-concentration-camp http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194615/kissinger-on-liberati...