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Believe it or not, there are plenty of people who think well of him. I don't happen to be one of them, but not everyone views his actions through the same lens.
by ineedasername 5y ago
Believe it or not, there are plenty of people who think well of him. I don't happen to be one of them, but not everyone views his actions through the same lens. Also his de-escalation of tensions with the Soviet Union overshadows a lot of the other stuff for many people. He was a horrifically adept player of the realpolitik game, and for some people the awful acts that came with that game are just the necessary costs.
- pasabagi 5y agoA lot of historians seem to see Kissinger as more the guy who thought of himself as 'horrifically adept', than the guy who actually was.
- avgcorrection 5y agoYou are very adverse to the “war criminal” label. I guess that’s too disrespectful for your tastes. (We must, above all else, respect the “players” of the “politicking”.) Reading comments by students of polsci (amateur or pro) either makes me fall asleep—oh the regergutation of supposed “ideals” and bromides and empty platitudes—or makes me shake my head in disgust. They must have ascended to a Platonic Plane where they are unperturbed by the implications of what they say.