From what little I knew of him, I’m not a fan, but I will leave the longer eulogy to others.
As Paladin put it, "The good die young that they may not be corrupted; the wicked live on that they may have a chance to repent.”
I think that chance was squandered in Dr. Kissinger’s case.
I generally find it crass to cheer a death, no matter who it is.
Tonight, I’m at a favorite bar with two drinks in front of me, celebrating most crassly.
A link to the 1982 Doonesbury cartoon wherein Kissinger’s heart surgeon reflects on holding the heart of the man whose policies once condemned thousands to death Saturday March 13, 1982 Doonesbury Comic Strip - Andrews McMeel Licensing
Man, I looked all over youtube for 1980 Al Franken as Henry Kissinger getting busted by Bill Kreutzman for taping the Dead concert, but to no avail. Believe me, it would have made a wonderful 2nd post to this thread!
Old joke: I’ve been told you should only speak good of the dead. Kissinger is dead. Good.
Kinda gotta go with this sentiment.
Liberal CNN is praising him at the moment. A woman I worked with long ago described him as slime. I had admired some international settlement he worked out. I particularly admired his refusing to say anything when asked about a political killing, “The United States does not condone assassination as an intrnational tool.” I was not following international events closely at the time.
Murder of tens of thousands civilians okay, but assassination? Can’t condone it. WTF.
His grave better have good drainage to a sewer treatment plant.
“Good oath, that.”
I don’t pay much attention to Rolling Stone these days, but I do appreciate that the tag line for their obituary is “Good riddance”
Not so much squandered as a spendthrift of moral compromise:
CNN is not particularly liberal; just ethically flexible, avaricious for attention, and perpetually in need of viewership that isn’t running on a gym treadmill.
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I’ll leave the kind words to Anthony Bourdain. And the historical portrayal to Doctor Strangelove.
High time.
Here’s another Doonesbury, from 1979, with Honey asking for advice about what to bring up in a seminar led by Henry Kissinger:
The best that I can say about him is that he wasn’t quite as despicable as Robert McNamara. Probably. It’s not a hill I’d die on. Unlike, say, a hill they made young Americans die on in a series of frontal assaults lasting a week only to immediately abandon it.
I read, I forget the author or the name of the book, that Dante wrote of people whose souls were burning in Hell while still alive. Demons lived within their bodies. The author said Henry Kissinger was one of these sinners ever since the bombing of Cambodia.
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