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Common consensus today appears to paint Kissinger as the driving force and genius behind the Nixon administration's foreign policy success.

They gave it to Arafat, Kissinger and quite a few other warmongers, so it didn't have that much value to lose.

Obama, Imma let you finish, but Kissinger was the worst pick of all time!

Rather like Tom Stoppard retiring when the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to Kissinger - how can you top that for satire?

In any case, there's no need to reach towards Nazis - plenty of people protested when the war criminal Kissinger wanted to teach at Columbia.

Even Henry Kissinger believes their fears to be well-founded.

The real genius of Kissinger was realizing the abstraction of a unified Communist block was pretty faulty, and national interests superseded any ideological fidelity to the Communist cause.

Look, don't worry, just trust us, after all we have Henry Kissinger on the board, so we must be on the level.

), with Henry Kissinger making statements about how we should encourage Iran to have nuclear power etc.

I personally am with Kissinger and Metternich on that subject - wars are unavoidable, so it is better to have a system that limits their scope and regularity.

I think somewhere else on HN today there was mention of the famous discussion between Kissinger and Ellsberg about how the world seems different when you have access to information that most people don't.

I think Thompson expresses this quite well: > Kissinger is a slippery little devil, a world-class hustler with a thick German accent and a very keen eye for weak spots at the top of the power structure.

Henry Kissinger said the only thing you need to know about academia, "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

"Academic politics is so vicious because the stakes are so low." - Henry Kissinger.

Kissinger, hardly a leftist, said "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests." Yeah some elements of Iran are nasty but we don't have to be besties.

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize"

Kissinger's support of Pakistan was a direct processor to and some would say the enabler of the atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Nixon/Kissinger took advantage of the split; they didn't cause it.

Kissinger, Begin, and Sadat all won it in the 70s.