re: #122 No Malarkey!

I get that people dislike Kissinger because he so coldly ignored the plight of the victims of the dictators he supported.

But when I read in that article:

Yet Kissinger’s spin on this school of thought, as a practitioner, seriously damaged U.S. interests. It so brusquely violated American values; it hoisted such a dreadful image of America in the world, an image that our Cold War rivals and critics could exploit so easily.

And what values would those be?

In the 160 years of US history before Kissinger rose to power, the US spent most of that time stealing lands, breaking treaties, invading countries, etc.

Kissinger was no more evil than the typical American powerbroker of the past.