In these important ways, your book is astonishingly, defiantly, and perplexingly anti-political. There is little attempt in your book to grapple with the issue of how much difference any individual made to the conduct of US foreign policy during the cold war, or, to return to the concrete world of personalities, no real recognition of the implications of the fact that Kissinger spent most of his time in government serving Richard Nixon-a president who was hardly a passive bystander in all these events. In your account, he is a kind of lone gunman, spreading destruction across the globe out of a demented, pathological need to do harm. It seems to me, though, that by fixating on Kissinger you let the US policy elite, of which Kissinger is only one rather florid and over-rated product, off the hook. The oddity in this debate is that it is you, not I, who is the self-proclaimed leftist. Christopher Hitchens This book is a polemical masterpiece by. The deliberate mass killing of civilian population in Indo China. A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. If I am right, then despite your claims you have not taken sufficiently into account the institutional nature of the policy Kissinger implemented and instead have fetishised the role of one celebrated official at the expense of seeing his role in its appropriate political, historical and moral context. Christopher Hitchens in this well document book, gives an indictment sheet for crimes against humanity committed by Henry Kissinger the charge sheet is as follows: 1.
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