292 Comments

PERFECT bullshit then.

Expand full comment

One wonders if some cash didn't change hands from military contractors (or Erik Prince even) to the Taliban to motivate that bombing...

Expand full comment

Ray Gun got 241 Marines killed in Beirut. He can rot!

Expand full comment

Or Moulton and Mejier who had no business there.

Expand full comment

I went through the Gallipoli of Disqus signup just to ask to quote this on a smaller forum, not all of whose members are among the Wonkerati.

Expand full comment

Candice Bergen, also too.

Expand full comment

Well stated. Kissinger has American blood on his hands. Bring back the draft with chicken hawk politicians families first in line to serve in combat areas.

Expand full comment

obligatoryhttps://twitter.com/trevorj...

Expand full comment

The Economist started in 1843. It opposed London's proposed sewage system: they didn't exactly call it "socialism" back then but that was the gist of the objection.

Expand full comment

Dr. Strangelove speaks like him, rather: the character was partly based on him, partly on Edward Teller

Expand full comment

I could not agree more. Once upon a time, I worked in a building on 57th Street where I saw HK in the elevator a few times. I showed massive self-restraint by not spitting.

Expand full comment

I saw him once. A short little fat guy being pulled along by a dog he had on a leash. With a secret service agent dancing all around him, as if someone in one of the very tony parts of Georgetown was just waiting to take a shot at him. What a putz.

Expand full comment

not really.

peerless in-country coverage. myopic political editorials still wedded to a mid 20th c idea of 'liberalism', 'the free market' and 'democracy be best'.

Expand full comment

OMFG. I heard a brief mention of his name on NPR earlier this week when I was half-asleep, and purposely didn't follow it up, because I didn't want something like this to be true. Oh, damn--he was the Buster Keaton of drummers.

Expand full comment

So, pro-Big Stink? If you started out pro-cholera, endorsing Kissinger isn't much of a stretch.

Expand full comment

excellent in-depth analysis; well done, sir, and thank you. Who still reports on our lords and masters of the military-industrial complex?

Expand full comment