Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
Rolling Stone first out of the gate with the true elbow-drop of a headline this news deserves, and a beefy polemic to back it up.
This article, along with every other news site's, has been sitting there primed and ready to release for years and years, needing nothing but a minor edit to add the relevant details of his passing and the date. Someone at Rolling Stone is delighted today to have finally hit "Publish" .
And too right they should. It's a great day.
I like to imagine that whenever there was a particularly slow day or someone was particularly stressed, they just opened the prepared article and tweaked and improved it a bit ... it's probably the collaborative work of many people over many years.
Every other news article is like
"Henry Kissinger, diplomat beloved by the wealthy, is dead at 100"
This is the best summary I could come up with: Henry Kissinger, war criminal and complete piece of shit, has finally died. The world is a better place now.
The world would have been a better place if somebody had made a better decision 101 years ago.
Whilst I would love to think that all that it would have taken for the World to be a much better place since the later part of the XX century was but one coitus interruptus, I'm almost certain that in the US there was and always has been a long line of sociopaths willint to advise the for the deaths of millions of others for personal upside maximization whilst calling it just realpolitik, any of which would've taken the place of this one has his daddy chosen to pull out at the last minute.
Had Kissinger raised to be the consiglieri of power in, say, Canada, he would've had quite a different impact in the World.
This is well known, but I think it suits this thread well
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. While Henry continues to nibble nori rolls and remake at A-list parties, Cambodia, the neutral nation he secretly and illegally bombed, invaded, under-mined, and then threw to the dogs, is still trying to raise itself up on its one remaining leg.
Anthony Bourdain
God damn it, why couldn't it have been Kissinger who killed himself?
I guess because Bourdain had a soul and Kissinger didn't.
The wrong people tend to kill themselves in general. Those who commit the worst acts usually have supremely high self-confidence and self-assurance.
Saddest part is that he gets to die living a long, comfortable life after making his mark upon the world, meaning he gets to die happy.
Don't celebrate that he died. Mourn that he lived.
And the cherry on top is the Nobel 'peace' prize.
The world order that he helped to create has spent the last few decades crumbling, so perhaps he wasn't as happy as you might think. I can only hope.
Yeah, probably the most upsetting thing for people like him is China's dominance.
They really envisioned a world where the United States' ruling class says 'jump' and everyone else asks 'how high?'
Or if you take a Buddhist view he died the most miserable and painful death because he finally realized what an evil shit he was.
I don't think you understand the psychology of sociopaths like him. They care neither for anyone's suffering nor for anyone's opinion about them. They care only for the pleasure they derive from the pain they inflict. He probably spent his last waking hours reminiscing over the glory days of the massacres he started.
I feel like that’s just coping tbh.
Anthony Bourdain, a well spoken man who reached his boiling point with existence a fair bit to soon, always had a lot to say about Kissinger. An excerpt from a book he wrote "about" culinary tourism from, if anyone wasn't aware...
The title is strong, but article itself is brutal
three and four million people
That would make the list go: Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kissinger. With the difference that the US has been a terrorist state for over a hundred years, while the other names on the list have been individuals while Kissingers was part of a greater evil.
You think because the names you listed were leaders of their countries doesn't make them part of a greater evil? No one person commits atrocities alone; there must be some backing.
One single name doesn't get to make decisions... There must be a greater body at play. There has to be support of some sort, otherwise the people would have just said no, and killed that person.
My great Aunt had a terrific joke about Henry:
Nixon is walking outside the Whitehouse near an area of freshly fallen snow.
He sees NIXON SUCKS in yellow snow and asks the Secret Service (and the FBI) to investigate who did it.
A couple days go by and someone from the FBI Forensics Lab comes into the Oval Office to report.
"Well?" Nixon asked.
"You're not gonna like this."
"Just tell me."
"It's Henry's."
"I knew it!"
"Ah. That's not all Mr. President."
"What else?"
"It's Pat's handwriting."
Ding dong the witch is dead!
About fucking time, holy shit.
And, about time for some listening to this one banger Free Money! rip on Youtube as a sort of ironic celebration.
Best example of The good die young I have ever seen.
It's a shame he never faced justice for his crimes.
As is typical for most USA sponsored terrorists, especially those that call the shots in 'murica
And not a single tear was shed.
Plenty of tears >!of joy!< were shed
After reading the article, I'm left with the impression that, if he wasn't jew, he'd be right at home with the german nazi govt. Not necessarily because of racial bias, but because of his anticommunism and also for being able to direct the military against unsuspecting targets for the sole purpose of solidifying power.
So are we all just going to wait for the ruling class to die off like he did or are we going to stand for justice and do something about the other evil motherfuckers in the elite still living?
What are you talking about, we are going to breed our generation of evil motherfuckers.
I heard Henry Kissinger ran into a tree and all his money fell out of his pockets and the teens called him Sonic the removedhog while he tried to get at least one coin so he could go on.
Can someone please explain what he did to be labeled a war criminal?
Genuine question, because I only know this guy as an asshole who suggested Ukraine should give up it’s occupied territories.
He's got a 6-8 part Behind the Bastard series about him but the article here is a tldr. Basically he is directly responsible for killing about four million people, basically carpet bombed Vietnam and was in Watergate.
Figures. I don’t think that the Ukrainians who were pissed about his suggested “peace deal” knew about this. Either that, or they didn’t mention it. And I remember his article was widely discussed in the Ukrainian media. Maybe if his background was more widely known, his opinion would have been more easily dismissed.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-kissinger-94160733/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-kissinger-94268769/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-six-kissinger-94899290/
He (and Ford) came to Indonesia during Soeharto's New Order and endorsed invasion of East Timor. That was one day before the invasion happened.
Wow, I’m surprised I’ve never heard this before.
He drove us policy for decades, especially “the ends justify the means” stuff.
As a partial explanation, not an excuse, y’all have to remember this was the Cold War. A lot of this was accepted as a necessary evil to prevent the big EVIL. If you thought you had to choose between civilization ending WWIII, vs interfering in a third world conflict, the evil may not be as clear cut as y’all think. Kissinger drove the bus but we all went along.
Falling for however much of that was propaganda is all on us.
We also mostly fell for it in Iraq. If you take anything from this diplomat’s life work, DONT FALL FOR THE PROPAGANDA. it’s easy to see the evil with hindsight and in a different world, but we all need to develop the skepticism and questioning to see this for it is when it happens again.
I’m proud of my country but that includes seeing where we’ve failed and it’s all of our duty to see when it’s stepping off the ideal path and do our part to get it back on track
Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, Thatcher, Mao, Thọ, and many more scumbags welcome this monster in hell. Disgusting.
Won't miss him.
Without a doubt, the best headline about the death of this worm. Congratulations to the editor.
I wish Anthony Bourdain was here to see this.
Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer You're the Doctor of my dreams
With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare And your machiavellian schemes I know they say that you are very vain And short and fat and pushy but at least you're not insane
Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer And wishing you were here
Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer You're so chubby and so neat
With your funny clothes and your squishy nose You're like a German parakeet All right so people say that you don't care But you've got nicer legs than Hitler And bigger tits than Cher
Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer And wishing you were here
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://m.piped.video/watch?v=SVGV6lvNTR4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Kissinger is not the reason Bob Dylan wrote the song "Masters of War" but let's face it he fits the role very well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Instead, in a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and – shamefully, since Kissinger had reporters like CBS’ Marvin Kalb and the New York Times‘ Hendrick Smith wiretapped – newsrooms.
Kissinger, a refugee from the Nazis who became a pedigreed member of the “Eastern Establishment” Nixon hated, was a practitioner of American greatness, and so the press lionized him as the cold-blooded genius who restored America’s prestige from the agony of Vietnam.
It was this sort of unacceptable policy that prompted Kissinger to remark, during an intelligence meeting about two months before Allende’s election, “I don’t see why we need to stand idly by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.”
As Corey Robin has documented, Friedrich von Hayek’s neoliberal Mont Pelerin Society held a 1981 meeting in the very city where the junta plotted the replacement of democratic socialism with a harbinger of today’s global economic order.
Five days later, a car bomb emplaced by Pinochet’s agents detonated along Washington D.C.’s Embassy Row, killing Orlando Letelier, Allende’s foreign minister, and his American co-worker, Ronni Moffitt.
The Vietnamese guerilla and justice minister Truong Nhu Tang writes in his Viet Cong Memoir that Kissinger, whose intellect he praises, “inherited a conceptual framework from his American and French predecessors…that led him to disaster.”
The original article contains 4,663 words, the summary contains 239 words. Saved 95%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
If you are going to have a news thread and allow opinionated titles, that means your community supports political commentary headlines and not factual news.
The titles should be nothing other than neural summaries.
"Henry Kissenger died at age 100, He was a controversial figure in American politics". That's a factual title.
The published title of this post is opinionated commentary and not factual news posting.
EDIT: You won't even support the idea of non-bias news posts. And you expect to be taken seriously. Fucking shaking my head right now.
him dying of old age is a spit on humanity. babies get killed all the time and yet this psychopath lived a luxurious life after being responsible for the death of millions of people.
he may be dead, but even is death is a blight upon humanity, because he is, imho, one of the few people that deserve the death penalty for his crimes.
So you counter an inflammatory title with hyperbole. In 2021, in just Afghanistan, 14 percent of people killed were women and children.
In Palestine people are dying daily. In Ukraine they are fighting against a mad man... So on and so forth.
But here is a guy who for over 40 years has been out of the power structure, has no influence and dies when most of the grips you lot claim happened before you were born, but you have a massive hardon for him.
Must be nice to fight against a problem that doesn't exist.
