Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.
4 million deaths can be directly attributed to this asshole. Many, many, many more indirectly. He was the last member of the Nixon cabinet still alive.
The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
This quote is about never wishing a man dead. Clarence Darrow was a famous late 19th to early 20th century litigator who vehemently opposed the death penalty. He'd never wish anyone dead, he's fundamentally opposed to death as a punishment, but that doesn't mean he's sad when a bad person dies.
If anyone needs to get an idea of why we celebrate Kissinger's death and lament that it didn't happen sooner and more painfully, this article is all one would need to read.
And along with it, they can get a damning picture of US foreign policy over the last half century and the lengths to which the ruling class will go to ensure they retain their power everywhere.
It was locked for me. I assume it goes into details about how he was involved with a plan to bomb Northern Cambodia during the Vietnam war which resulted in 100,000s to possibly a whole million deaths mostly civilian. Then it mentions how he might have been involved in installing a new dictator there which, combined with the bombings, drove people to Pol Pot. Who in turn unleashed, in percentages, the worst documented democide in human history, within five years eliminating 20% of the population.
Thank goodness this is Lemmy, not R*ddit. I'm not gonna go check, but I can only imagine the mods over there are treating the thread like Kissinger treated Cambodia.
So I was in a good enough mood to check it out and the current mood is celebratory. I didn't see any removed comments unless they hide them completely now.
I've never heard of him specifically until today, but I'm general I still talk shit about anyone I hate from the day I hate them and their death will not stop my opinion expression.
I don't try to keep them alive with constant discussion, but if they're brought up I don't mind telling shit until (if god was real) even God would be ashamed of creating them. To the point it would start
a war with anyone with anything positive to say about them.