Debacle, Inc.: How Henry Kissinger Helped Disorder the World

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http://commondreams.org/views/2015/09/28/debacle-inc-how-henry-kissinger-helped-disorder-world
Debacle, Inc.: How Henry Kissinger Helped Disorder the World

by

Greg Grandin, 9/28/15

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...As national security adviser and then secretary of state, Kissinger was directly involved in planning and executing covert actions in such diverse places as Cambodia, Angola, and Chile. No available information indicates that he ever directly encouraged Pakistan’s ISI or Iran’s SAVAK to destabilize Afghanistan. But we don’t need a smoking gun to appreciate the larger context and consequences of his many regional initiatives in what, in the twenty-first century, would come to be known in Washington as the “greater Middle East.” In their 1995 book, Out of Afghanistan, based on research in Soviet archives, foreign-policy analysts Diego Cordovez and Selig Harrison provide a wide-ranging sense of just how so many of the policies Kissinger put in place -- the empowerment of Iran, the restoration of military relations with Pakistan, high oil prices, an embrace of Saudi Wahhabism, and weapon sales -- came together to spark jihadism

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This is a comprehensive article about Kissinger and how he messed up the world. However things are drastically changing in the Middle East:

Since the 1970s, one administration after another has found the iron-clad alliance Kissinger deepened between the House of Saud’s medieval “moderates” and Washington indispensable not only to keep the oil flowing but as a balance against Shia radicalism and secular nationalism of every sort. Recently, however, a series of world-historical events has shattered the context in which that alliance seemed to make sense. These include: the catastrophic war on and occupation of Iraq, the Arab Spring, the Syrian uprising and ensuing civil war, the rise of ISIS, Israel’s rightwing lurch, the conflict in Yemen, the falling price of petroleum, and, now, Obama’s Iran deal.


This is no longer Kissinger's Middle East yet the GOP candidates are still living in the past.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' to read later.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Filthy POS war criminal. nt

[Paka]

3. He is as big a scumbag as they come.

The damage he has done worldwide defies description.