November 30, 2002
I wonder who's Kissinger now?
The Latest Kissinger Outrage - Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation? By Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens doesn't disappoint...by failing to have a highbrow hissy fit!
And especially over Henry the K.
Steady as she goes, my former ex(?)-Leftist friend!
You talk about Henry's past deeds, particularly Dr. Kissinger's alleged culpability for the Pinochet coup in Chile, as if he were President then--or even King!-- and not just a mere tool in the Nixon cabinet.
I've always had a lot of regard for the good Dr.: I slept better at night when he was our SoS.
[I felt safe travelling to the former U.S.S.R. for 3 weeks in 1976 and the Russians were very nice to us because the Nixon/Ford Administration was in the midst of the S.A.L.T. talks with the Russkis and Henry was playing hard ball as only he could.]
When I think of the negotiations he helped handle with the former U.S.S.R., with Mao Tse Tung in China and even closing out the Vietnam "conflict" in Paris, the man proved himself to be a master strategist, diplomat and statesman.
When President Bush's appointment of a distinguished senior statesman like Dr. Kissinger comes right after the Dimocrats have drug Walter Mondale and Frank Lautenberg back from the brink of death from old age to run in current campaigns and have hailed their "hero" and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy "No Nukes in North Korea" Carter, who has also distinguished himself by making a visible trip to Red Cuba, selling the U.S. down the river to Islamist Terrorism by lauding the Khomeini Islamic Revolution as a "Freedom Fight," and making Yasser Arafat his personal idol before, during and after the 1978 Camp David Israeli sell-out Peace Accords, Hitchens and the Left want to skewer the Bush Administration for giving the nod to Kissinger?
Well, our Republican "retreads" can lick your Dim nursing home escapees any day of the week, pal!
What's next? Aren't you going to hurl the charge at the man that he can't be fair investigating the terrorism perpetrated on 9/11 because the hijackers were radical Muslims and Kissinger is Jewish?
And what's with calling him "Kissin-Ger, with the hard 'g'?"
Is that pronunciation supposed to be more sinister?
Who would Hitch prefer to be appointed--Cynthia McKinney? Gary Condit? How about now-despised-by-Hitchens-but-once-beloved former Horndog-in-Chief Bill Clinton? (He's not really busy, when he's not cruising for loose b*tt.)
If what Hitchens alleges is true about Kissinger's history of collaboration and being the apologist for the Saudi Royal Family, wouldn't any findings of Saud involvement in 9/11 have all the more gravity and irrefutability coming from a former friend like Kissinger?
Maybe that's why President Bush chose him!
(Because we all know, unless something drastically different comes to light, that the House of Saud has deep roots in 9/11 and that President Bush is going to have to deal with that "at a day and a hour of our choosing.")
Hitch needs to decide once and for all if he's a Leftist or not ideologically speaking and drop this Cult of Personality thing, so beloved of true Stalinists, once and for all.
I see Dr. Kissinger as a fine choice and I think he may do great things with this commission.
Chris, if you really think you had the goods on Henry, why didn't you put down the bong and get busy back in the 1970's when it would have been more timely and meaningful?
It's almost the year 2003 : Let it go.
