https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

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Good Riddance

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies

The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976 meant the end of between three and four million people.

That includes "crimes of commission," he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia's bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan's bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.

"There is no doubt he'll be hailed as a geopolitical grand strategist, even though he bungled most crises, leading to escalation. He'll get credit for opening China, but that was De Gaulle’s original idea and initiative. He'll be praised for detente, and that was a success, but he undermined his own legacy by aligning with the neocons. And of course, he'll get off scot free from Watergate, even though his obsession with Daniel Ellsberg really drove the crime."

H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, remarking that Kissinger was the "hawk of hawks" inside the White House, but "touching glasses at a party with his liberal friends, the belligerent Kissinger would suddenly become a dove.."

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