Henry Kissinger, a erstwhile diplomat whose efforts to prolong and extend the U.S. War of Southeast Asia and weaken democracy in and outside Latin America millions of lives have been consumedHe died last Wednesday at the age of a hundred.
Treated to death in his own home in Connecticut You're royal. by the elite American political circles, Kissinger – who served as State Secretary and National safety Advisor in the cabinets of Presidents Nixon and Ford – never stood trial for secret carpet raids on Cambodia, to which he contributed, for the overthrow of the democratically elected president Chile nor for the bloody “dirty war” in Argentina where Tens of thousands of victims were murdered.
The catalog of his crimes is so extended that He had to be careful.Where he travels so he doesn't get stopped and interviewed for his participation in attacks, massacres and violent military coupsthe effects of which are inactive felt today.
"The secret justifications for the illegal bombing of Cambodia gave grounds for drone attacks and eternal war. This perfectly sums up the vicious ellipse of American militarism" – He said in an interview with The Intercept portal historian Greg Grandin, author of the bookKissinger’s Shadow (The Kissinger Shadow). Grandin estimatedKissinger is liable for the deaths of at least 3 million people.
Commentators looking at the influence of Kissinger's politics say that it is hard to express the actual scale of demolition he has brought to the world.
W obituary For Kissinger in Rolling Stone, writer Spencer Ackerman writes that "in terms of the number of confirmed murders, the worst mass criminal in the United States on which the death punishment was carried out, was a terrorist and white suprematist Timothy McVeigh. However, McVeigh, who in his psychotic way thought he was saving America, did not even approach the Kissinger scale, the most respected large American strategist of the second half of the 20th century.
All who died in Vietnam between the fall of 1968 and the fall of Saigon 7 years later—and all those who died in Laos and Cambodia, to whom Nixon and Kissinger secretly expanded the war effort respective months after taking office, as well as those who died in their aftermath, for example in the Red Khmer genocide in Cambodia, which they started destabilizing, died by Henry Kissinger.”
We will never know how Kissinger's apologists and those of the elite of American abroad policy who imagine themselves in his place justify his crimes. All we know is what actually happened. And it happened that Kissinger personally sabotaged the only chance to end the Vietnam War in 1968. That decision was expected to safe him from the Nixon administration. We will most likely never know the real number of those who died so Kissinger can take the position of US President's advisor for national security.
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Article published in stock Common Dreams under Creative Commons. She translated Anna Opara from English.
