MetaFilter posts tagged with HenryKissinger

Rumsfeld to Schlesinger: Drop Dead

Chrysostom — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:08:07 -0800

Gerald Ford's administration was in trouble. Tension within the party and turf battles in the Cabinet were tearing it apart. Something had to be done to get things back on course in time to fend off Ronald Reagan's primary challenge. And Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld were just the men to do it.

China in the World

HLD — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:47:39 -0800

Be it resolved: The 21st Century Will Belong to China. At tonight's Munk Debates, Niall Ferguson and David Daokui Li debate Henry Kissinger and Fareed Zakaria (Video may go behind a paywall after the free live airing.)

My pen is mightier than your pen!

The Card Cheat — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:05:58 -0800

The Top 10 Literary Feuds Of The Aughts, as compiled by Toronto journalist and author Shaun Smith. Some highlights: #8: Dale Peck vs. Rick Moody [previously] #7: Jonathan Franzen vs. Oprah Winfrey [previously] #4: Christopher Hitchens vs. Henry Kissinger [previously] #3: James Frey vs. Oprah Winfrey [previously] [previously]

Kissinger told China communist takeover in Vietnam was acceptable

ericb — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:10:28 -0800

Today, George Washington University's National Security Archive has published online the most comprehensive collection of memoranda of conversations (memcons) involving Henry Kissinger.

Revealed in the collection is the fact that "Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops - even as the war to drive back the Communists dragged on with mounting deaths....[He] told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: 'If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina.' ...[His] comments appear to lend credence to the 'decent interval' theory posed by some historians who said the United States was prepared to see Communists take over Saigon, as long as that happened long enough after a U.S. troop departure to save face."

Kissinger to head 9/11 commission

brantstrand — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:51:56 -0800

Henry Kissinger has been named head of the "independent commission" to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks. President Bush named Kissinger head upon signing bill to establish the commission. Kissinger has a controversial history and arguable distance from "independence". Given that, can the American people have any reasonable expectation of an honest inspection by their government of what lead up to that day? Will the burning questions even be asked, let alone answered?

Kissinger: Wanted for Questioning.

Ty Webb — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:30:13 -0800

Kissinger: Wanted for Questioning. ...as his list of possible vacation spots grows smaller,smaller. Christopher Hitchens details the ever more complex legal situation of former U.S. Sec. of State Henry Kissinger, who is now wanted for questioning by courts in Chile, Spain, and France. Writes Hitchens: "Recently, I was informed via the former Spanish ambassador to the United States that Kissinger had approached the embassy asking whether he would be safe if he visited Spain. These days he does not travel without legal advice."

"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb,"

aaronshaf — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:42:14 -0800

"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb," Nixon responded. "That, I think, would just be too much," Kissinger replied. "The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you?" Nixon asked. "I just want you to think big."

tiaka — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:42:12 -0800

Kissinger strikes again: Documents show US OK'd Indonesian '75 E.Timor Invasion.

raaka — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 04:06:40 -0800

In light of the Case Against Henry Kissinger, the National Security Archive published a collection of previously censored papers which show Ford and Kissinger approved the illegal invasion of East Timor, consciously “influence[d]” public opinion on the matter and continue to lie about the entire affair.

Mocata — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:11:13 -0800

Some Kissinger victims are taking him to court in the US. Good.

Mocata — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 03:25:16 -0800

The trial of Henry Kissinger!