Hillary Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger’s ‘World Order’

[XemaSab]

When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isn’t producing enough growth or shared prosperity — the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. It’s no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.

In his new book, “World Order,” Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.

During the Cold War, America’s bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissinger’s summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: “an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.”

This system, advanced by U.S. military and diplomatic power and our alliances with like-minded nations, helped us defeat fascism and communism and brought enormous benefits to Americans and billions of others. Nonetheless, many people around the world today — especially millions of young people — don’t know these success stories, so it becomes our responsibility to show as well as tell what American leadership looks like.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html

[guillaumeb]

1. War criminal Henry Kissinger cannot stop lying.

I especially loved the fiction about:

“an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.”

The US has literally always been at war, observes one rule, the rule of power, has over 1000 bases all over the world, and shows zero respect for national sovereignty.

He is a pathological liar who will say any lie in service to power.

[mr blur]

2. Rah! rah! USA!1! What bullshit.

[Octafish]

3. One of the great surprises upon meeting powerful, rich and famous people...

...is the discovery of just how much like oneself they are -- no better, no worse, just another human being. Kissinger and his ilk, though, are infamous. They are not like most people: they think they are better than others. That belief in their own superiority also gives them a rationale for theft, mass murder and treason.