Commentary: Henry Kissinger, who served as both secretary of state and national security adviser under President Richard Nixon and his successor Gerald Ford, embodies the impunity of the foreign policy establishment.
Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attends a luncheon with French President Emmanuel Macron, Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Dec. 1, 2022, at the State Department in Washington.
Under Kissinger’s leadership, the United States undermined democracy, disdained human rights, and propped up a wide range of brutal and violent dictators. We know this because the paper trail documenting his offenses is long, thanks to his tendency toHis foreign policy approach was one in which might makes right, ends justify any means, and long-term consequences are dismissed.
That lack of accountability costs lives, both American and foreign, and Kissinger disregarded the American lives lost just as much as any other. “Military men are To those who claim he was our most effective secretary of state in recent history, I would strongly disagree. His foreign policy program not only lacked a moral compass or compassion, but his national security choices helped destabilize and destroy parts of the world that have still not recovered, and many lives in the process.
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