Historian Greg Grandin: Glowing Obituaries for Henry Kissinger Reveal “Moral Bankruptcy” of U.S. Elites democracynow.org/2023/11/30/hen…
@democracynow "Moral bankruptcy" and plain old hypocrisy! You can't be ethnocentric and care about humanity at the same time. Empathy is not selective to race and religion/mythology.
President Barack Obama, who was 8 years old when Mr. Kissinger first took office, was less enamored of him. Mr. Obama noted toward the end of his presidency that he had spent much of his tenure trying repair the world the Mr. Kissinger left. He saw Mr. Kissinger's failures as a cautionary tale. "We dropped more ordnance on Cambodia and Laos than on Europe in World War II and yet, ultimately, Nixon withdrew, Kissinger went to Paris, and all we left behind was chaos, slaughter and authoritarian governments that finally, over time, have emerged from that hell. Obama noted that while in office he was still trying to help countries "remove bombs that are still blowing off the legs of little kids," "In what way did that strategy promote our interests? Obama asked.