The Real Kissinger - My Memories of Henry: A different Interpretation of the Man by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2023-12-01 at 16:55:51 )

The Real Kissinger - My Memories of Henry: A different Interpretation of the Man by Paul Craig Roberts!

Henry Kissinger at 100 years of age left the world he temporarily altered for the better after watching the neoconservatives in the Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden regimes wipe out his accomplishments.

Mr. Kissinger and President Nixon were men of peace. They inherited a disastrous war-Vietnam-that they had no hand in making. President John F. Kennedy intended to stop the war before it could get started, which was one of the reasons he was assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secret Service. The Soviet Threat had to be resisted even at the cost of President Kennedys life and the trauma inflicted on what was still in those days a free nation.

President Nixon and Mr. Kissinger also had to restart the efforts of President Kennedy to defuse the dangerous tensions of the Cold War that both the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam war brought to the surface.

The pursuit of detente by the Nixon administration produced the Strategic Arms Limitations Agreement and created a working relationship between Washington,D.C. and Moscow. Nixons opening to China might have prevented another war. Nixon and Kissingers achievements in defusing the Cold War were unrivaled until President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev ended the Cold war.

The Clinton regime violated the word of the George H.W. Bush administration that in exchange for the Soviet Union permitting the reunification of Germany, the United States would not move NATO one inch toward the East.

All subsequent United States regimes exited from all of the arms agreements that had reduced tensions and created a bond of trust between the nuclear superpowers. This bond is especially important, because of the numerous false warnings from warning systems.

The consequence of unraveling the work of Nixon, Kissinger, and Reagan is the total lack of trust today between the United States and Russia. The situation today is far worse than it was in the darkest days of the Cold War.

As an insider I well know that the problem of conservative presidents, such as Nixon and Reagan, in easing tensions with Russia is that their conservative base is suspicious of the effort. I well remember that Reagans efforts at detente with the Soviet Union were suspected by Reagans conservative base. Conservatives worried that a former movie star was not a match for cunning communists, and that the United States of America would come out the loser.

Nixon faced a worse problem. He was trapped by President Johnsons regime in a gratuitous war that could not be won. But if he left without winning he would endanger his base of support. The problem of the conservative base is the reason both Reagan and Nixon spoke aggressively, thus causing the leftwing to see them as warmongers.

The dilemma Nixon and Kissinger faced is the reason for the Cambodian bombings. They were desperate to get a situation from which they could exit the war without it being interpreted as a defeat by their political base. They were trying to use force to achieve an honorable exit, but the enemy would not give it to them.

The leftwing, of course, unable to comprehend the conundrum, interpreted Nixon and Kissinger as war criminals. This erroneous interpretation has held to the present day. See: "please see hear:"

Today I still encounter United States of American conservatives who claim that Reagan won the Cold War. This is nonsense. Reagan told those of us involved that the purpose was to end, not win, the Cold War.

Conservatives justify Reagan as the winner of the Cold War, as the man who collapsed the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union collapsed three years after Reagan left office. No one, including the Central Intelligence Agency, expected the collapse of the Soviet Union. It caught the United States government off guard.

The Soviet collapse occurred because hardline members of the Politburo, who feared Gorbachev was liberalizing too rapidly, placed Soviet President Gorbachev under house arrest. It was Gorbachevs arrest that led to Yeltsin and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Henry Kissinger was not a neoconservative who believed in United States hegemony over the world. He believed in stability.

United States of American power was to be used to maintain stability.

In those days there were still Marxist movements or alleged Marxist elements which were often only national movements.

In pursuit of stability, Kissinger often overthrew regimes he regarded as destabilizing. But his reason was to maintain stability in a dangerous world.

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