Henry Kissinger

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• 9/12/2021
  

  The Missed Lesson of Vietnam: Plan for Unconditional Victory or Don't Intervene at All

  by James D. Robenalt

  Comparisons between American withdrawal from Vietnam and Afghanistan miss a key point: failure was overwhelmingly likely from the beginning because, if the United States was unwilling or unable to secure unconditional surrender, time was on the side of its foes. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  8/27/2021
  

  Saigon Didn't End U.S. "Credibility." Neither Will Kabul

  by Mark Atwood Lawrence

  Did the United States suffer any serious geopolitical setbacks as a result of Vietnam? The answer is neither simple nor straightforward.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/8/2021
  

  What "Politics" Does to History: The Saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's Right-Hand Man

  by Jim Sleeper

  A recent Yale memorial to the diplomat Morton Charles Hill largely glossed over Hill's and Yale's roles in crafting an imperialist American foreign policy and in educating generations of diplomats to subordinate honesty to "grand strategy." 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  3/23/2021
  

  Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew

  Newly declassified documents demonstrate that the US government, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, were aware of the developing coup and evaluated policy as a balancing of the prospective military dictatorship's friendliness to the US against its likely willingness to commit human rights violations. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center
  9/10/2020
  

  TODAY: Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

  The National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars host a virtual discussion today featuring Thomas Schwartz, author of "Henry Kissinger: A Political Biography." 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  9/4/2020
  

  I Danced in the Streets after Allende’s Victory in Chile 50 Years Ago. Now I See its Lessons for Today

  by Ariel Dorfman

  The Chilean author Ariel Dorfman warns that while his country elected a democratic socialist in a landmark election, it was unprepared to deal with violent and ruthless efforts to maintain the status quo. Joe Biden is no socialist, but if he wins, his administration and Americans at large must be similarly prepared. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism

  by Gary Bass

  The emotional displays of prejudice revealed by newly uncensored White House tapes involving Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger help to explain a foreign policy debacle. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  8/17/2020
  

  Trump's Dodgy Israel-UAE "Peace Deal" Smells like the Work of Henry Kissinger

  by Jim Sleeper

  Is the Israel-UAE agreement to open diplomatic relations an effort to marginalize the Palestinian Authority? Jim Sleeper argues it's the sort of thing Henry Kissinger would do. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/13/2020
  

  The Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger

  by Jim Sleeper

  A new book on the Cold War statesman offers a dangerous justification for the unaccountability of powerful figures. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/11/2020
  

  The Myth of Henry Kissinger

  by Thomas Meaney

  Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/19
  

  How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

  by David Kaiser

  Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.

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• 9/9/18
  

  Kissinger Is at It Again

  by Robert K. Brigham

  At McCain’s funeral he presented himself as a foreign policy sage. He wasn’t one.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8-15-18
  

  An author defends his decision to write a new book celebrating Henry Kissinger

  In Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level, James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, and Robert H. Mnookin examine a number of Kissinger’s diplomatic moves, from Vietnam to China to southern Africa.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-25-18
  

  Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China

  The former secretary of state pushed one president to use China to isolate the Soviet Union. These days, he’s counseling almost the reverse—and officials are listening.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6-12-18
  

  What Dr. Ruth told Dr. Kissinger at a dinner with Angela Merkel

  by George Packer

  When Kissinger said it was a mistake for Germany to admit a million refugees Dr. Ruth told her own refugee story.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  5/16/18 (date accessed)
  

  Henry Kissinger is worried about AI?

  by Henry Kissinger

  Yes. He warns it might threaten the Enlightenment world the West aspires to embody.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-14-17
  

  Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile

  An exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago displays once-secret documents that describe covert operations and intelligence gathering on the Pinochet dictatorship.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  1-13-17
  

  Officials say Henry Kissinger is the target of a $150,000 assassination plot in 1977

  There have been frequent threats against Kissinger in the past, most of them from Arab extremists.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1-6-17
  

  Researcher: Henry Kissinger Conspired Against Carter

  Documents indicate Kissinger told the Pinochet government not to cooperate with the US investigation of the assassination of Chile’s former ambassador to the US in Washington DC.

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• SOURCE: Dawn
  1-4-17
  

  Henry Kissinger’s Washington is coming back around

  The president-elect who waged a campaign against global elites is turning to a man who knows most of them on a first-name basis.