<p>We begin our epic six part series on Henry Kissinger: the Forest Gump of war crimes.</p><p>FOOTNOTES:</p><ol> <li>https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-1923-1968-Idealist-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594206538</li> <li>https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979</li> <li>https://www...
I can see that happening. There’s basically no upper limit to human suffering and depravity. Personally, I’ve got a decent tolerance of anything short of ‘hacking kids to bits with machetes while lighting puppies on fire with a flamethrower.’
It helps that we’re usually decently detached from the things they mention.
What a coincidence, just downloaded all 6 episodes and plan on listening to them in the coming days. I'll admit I don't really know a lot about this guy, but I hear he was a bastard. Oh yeah, the bit about him being the Forest Gump of war crimes had me laughing.
It's astonishing to me, how completely, I don't really know what to call it, unmotivated? he was in his actions. I could understand, if there would have been an ideology behind it, even money I could somehow understand. But instead it seems to be just a complete disregard of human life in general. He was under no pressure, no reelection, no personal threat, nothing. He just truly did not care.