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Can't Henry Kissinger just die already? He won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War. Only in the 90's we learned that he and Nixon torpedoed the '6
by AndyMcConachie 8y ago
Can't Henry Kissinger just die already?
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War. Only in the 90's we learned that he and Nixon torpedoed the '68 Vietnam peace talks under Johnson to make Johnson look bad before the election.
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/notes-indicate-nixon-interfered-1968-peace-talks-180961627/> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/notes-indicate-nix...
This is public information. We know that part of what Nixon was looking for during the Watergate break ins was evidence that Johnson kept about this. Yet publications like The Atlantic still allow this criminal Kissinger to publish.
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<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason> https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-co...
In the Price of Power (1983), Seymour Hersh revealed Henry Kissinger—then Johnson’s adviser on Vietnam peace talks secretly alerted Nixon’s staff that a truce was imminent.
According to Hersh, Nixon “was able to get a series of messages to the Thieu government [of South Vietnam] making it clear that a Nixon presidency would have different views on peace negotiations.”
Johnson was livid. He even called the Republican Senate Minority Leader, Everett Dirksen, to complain that “they oughtn’t be doing this. This is treason.”
“I know,” was Dirksen’s feeble reply.
Johnson blasted Nixon about this on November 3rd, just prior to the election. As Robert Parry of Consortiumnews.com has written: “when Johnson confronted Nixon with evidence of the peace-talk sabotage, Nixon insisted on his innocence but acknowledged that he knew what was at stake.”
Said Nixon: “My, I would never do anything to encourage….Saigon not to come to the table….Good God, we’ve got to get them to Paris or you can’t have peace.”
But South Vietnamese President General Theiu—a notorious drug and gun runner—did boycott Johnson’s Paris peace talks. With the war still raging, Nixon claimed a narrow victory over Humphrey. He then made Kissinger his own national security adviser.
In the four years between the sabotage and what Kissinger termed “peace at hand” just prior to the 1972 election, more than 20,000 US troops died in Vietnam. More than 100,000 were wounded. More than a million Vietnamese were killed.
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoThis entire post is ad-hominem and does not make an argument against the content of the linked article.
- RobertoG 8y agoThe post could be not related to the subject of the article but it's related to the author of the article. It's clearly not ad-hominem because the comment is not rejecting the claims of the article, only expressing his opinion about the author. On the other hand, I have to agree with the criticism about the tone that other comment express. It never improves the debate to wish somebody dead.
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoIn which case, it's an off topic comment that is not relevant to the content of the article.
- RobertoG 8y agoApparently, but is that the case? After all, both, the article and the comment, are talking about the dangers of power unrestricted by ethics.
- dwaltrip 8y agoIt could be viewed as providing useful historical context. I don't have an opinion on the matter, as I don't really know much about Kissinger, but it seems like a possibility at least.
- RobertoG 8y agoThat's only one of his exploits. That this guy talk with a straight face about "enlightenment" and "ethics" is "funny".
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y agoOff-topic rant aside, Can't Henry Kissinger just die already? is a despicable thing to say about anyone. If you want to get a point across, don’t rant it, and don’t open with something vile. Not liking someone, or a conviction that they’re a terrible person is no excuse.