I long for the day when Henry Kissinger has a worse reputation than Richard Nixon. Unfortunately, he’s the dean of our foreign policy establishment, having mentored most of the top national security thinkers of both parties over the last forty-five years. And, trust me, I’m mindful of Kissinger’s accomplishments as well as his moral failings. I don’t just add up the dead bodies and leave the rest of it unexamined. I also know the environment he had to operate within, and there were plenty of people with far worse impulses that he fended off.
But, there just aren’t too many Americans, if any, in our entire history, who can top the “3, maybe 4 million deaths” that are attributable to Kissinger’s decision-making.
Someday, there will be an honest reckoning.
