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Are you suggesting there aren’t today? You’ve never heard of North Korea? Xinjiang? If you’re referring to the USSR - Jimmy Carter is the first president to
by tw04 3y ago
Are you suggesting there aren’t today? You’ve never heard of North Korea? Xinjiang?
If you’re referring to the USSR - Jimmy Carter is the first president to arm the Mujahideen (for better and worse), without the help of Kissinger.
- dccoolgai 3y agoThose places exist, but they are the exception rather than the rule in 2023. I'm not offering a full-throated apology of Kissinger (or, by extension, Nixon) just pointing out that a lot of the people jumping out to proclaim what a terrible human he is a few hours after his death was announced might consider that they would be demonstrably worse off if the forces Kissinger worked to keep at bay had prevailed.