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May 26, 2003
Kissinger turns 80 Henry Kissinger was born May 27, 1923. Happy #80, Dr. Kissinger.
Kissinger was most famous (or infamous) for being Richard Nixon's Secretary of State, and thus a co-planner (or co-conspirator if you hate him) in some of the harshest American applications of force since WWII.
Kissinger would generally be regarded as the American embodiment of some idea of "realpolitick" meaning that policies are judged stringently on advancing what are seen as America's national interest with little regard to, for example, worrying about how this will affect the populaces of countries controlled by our enemies, ie Cambodia.
People of the left seem in some cases to especially and particularly hate him to a degree that seems irrational. People who have a wink and a nod for Castro think that Kissinger is Satan. I'm not particularly endorsing anything that Kissinger has done. He just doesn't seem like an evil Nazi to me, even if some policy calls seem questionable.
Christopher Hitchens in particular seems to have special personal grudge against the man, what with his book The Trial of Henry Kissinger. There's so much as a whole movie to go with it.
The point of Hitchens' book is to argue that Kissinger should even today absolutely stand trial for war crimes in front of an international tribunal "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture."
