The Apologia Olympics
Even before his corpse was cold, the rehabilitation of Henry Kissinger had begun.
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“Of course, like anyone who has confronted the most difficult problems of international politics, he was criticized at times, even denounced. But I believe he was always motivated not from a coarse ‘realpolitik’ but from a genuine love of the free world and the need to protect it. He was a problem solver, whether in […]