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TOP TEN KISSINGER QUOTES
1. Soviet Jews: The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern. ( link)
2. Bombing Cambodia: [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. ( link) (Emphasis added)
3. Bombing Vietnam: "It's wave after wave of planes. You see, they can't see the B-52 and they dropped a million pounds of bombs ... I bet you we will have had more planes over there in one day than Johnson had in a month ... each plane can carry about 10 times the load of World War II plane could carry." ( link)
4. Khmer Rouge: How many people did (Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary) kill? Tens of thousands? You should tell the Cambodians (i.e., Khmer Rouge) that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we wont let that stand in the way. We are prepared to improve relations with them. Tell them the latter part, but dont tell them what I said before. (from November 26, 1975 Meeting With Thai Foreign Minister.)
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(108,903 posts)jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)It's the embrace of cynical, soulless realpolitik as the adult view of things. The usual kind that bleat about morals are concerned with sex and shame. Who you fuck isn't about morality, it's who you fuck over. Just because you park your penis in your lawfully married wife, that doesn't give you moral cover as your direct orders cause the deaths of millions.
There's a common line you hear from people who have sold their souls that those who are disgusted by a revealed horror are being painfully naïve. Ha. I think it's the soulless who are being delusional. You callously fuck over those you can and accept your fucking in turn, taking one for the team, and you never stop supporting this brutality.
McCain is such a wonderful example. A torture victim who supports torture. Someone who sees his family fucked before his eyes such as with the black baby out of wedlock allegations made by the Bush campaign and he soldiers on, hugging the man who did it because its just politics.
No, you shits. You have sold your souls and you can't call us foolish children for thinking you've thrown away the only part of yourself that matters.