Henry Kissinger. NYT. WP. LAT. McThag. Henry Kissinger official website.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
–Tom Lehrer
Henry Kissinger. NYT. WP. LAT. McThag. Henry Kissinger official website.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
–Tom Lehrer
I have read a few place about folks feelings about Kissinger, and some are pretty harsh. They say that Kissinger is a war criminal for facilitating bombing in Cambodia, a neutral country during the Vietnam war.
No matter what else one might say about Kissinger and his legacy, one thing that cannot really be said is that Cambodia was neutral during the Vietnam war. If they were neutral, they would not have allowed the North Vietnamese army to stage their army and supplies in their country, to escape the military of the South Vietnamese and the Americans.
As for Kissinger being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the quip about political satire by Tom Lehrer, I wonder if he would have anything to say about the awarding of a Peace Prize to Barack Obama when he had not done a thing yet, but when he did he used drones to kill not only enemies of our country but also citizens of this country as well.
Sorry, I am one of those awful people who are still stuck in that place where I think that the Vietnam war was a mistake but that the men and women who were there deserve our support, both now but also for what they did then. And I have friends, now mostly gone, who suffered at the hands of the North Vietnamese not only physically but mentally due to the horrific things they witnessed, which they to a soul were reluctant to discuss. The few tales that they did relate to me would haunt any 19 or 20 year old for life.