Before the Trump administration can execute a MAGA national security policy, the legacy of Henry Kissinger must be exorcised.
Kissinger’s legacy has been a curse for 49 years. His intellectual brilliance, his Harvard credentials, his skill in cultivating elite patrons by feeding their illusions of self-importance brought him power and wealth on false pretenses and at a cost to his country.
This is our opportunity to replace a culture of self-indulgent delusions with a culture of truth and courage.
On January 9, 1971, Kissinger met secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Without consulting President Nixon, Kissinger decided the United States could effectively “win” the Vietnam War by allowing this sequence of events to unfold:
- the North and South sign a peace treaty;
- the United States withdraws its troops from South Vietnam;
- the North leaves its 13 divisions inside South Vietnam;
- the South has two years of freedom; and
- with massive Soviet and Chinese support, the North conquers the South. […]
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