re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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:

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.

Eh, what he did was blatantly and obviously violate the values most of us hold. Now 90% of us don’t pretend that we expect reality to uphold them, but in our hearts, those are the dreams we have. He used our fantasies to ratfuck our reality.

I know that reality will never be quite what we want it to be.

But the people like Kissenger that steal our dreams and smash them while putting people like Pinochet into power? I could have spent decades introducing him to classic medieval tortures before slitting hit throat and sending him back to his master in hell.