Henry KKKissinger's Brilliant Genius.

[FOREVER LEFT]

KKKissinger arrives at the sad conclusion now 4 years after the Iraq war started. I knew this before the war began--- And I'm not getting an honorary degree for my political sagacity! Booooo!


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/247/

Published on Sunday, April 1, 2007 by the Associated Press
Iraq Military Victory No Longer Possible, says Henry Kissinger

by Hans Greimel in Tokyo

FORMER US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the US withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than in the Vietnam War, and military victory was no longer possible.He also said he sympathised with the troubles facing US President George W. Bush.

“A military victory in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible,” Dr Kissinger said in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University.

The faceless, ubiquitous nature of Iraq’s insurgency, as well as the religious divide between Shiite and Sunni rivals, makes negotiating peace extremely difficult, he said.

But Dr Kissinger, who has also advised Mr Bush on Iraq, warned that a sudden pullout of troops or loss of influence could unleash chaos.

Dr Kissinger said the best way forward was to reconcile the differences between Iraq’s warring sects with help from other countries.

He applauded efforts to host a conference bringing together the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Iraq’s neighbours, including Washington’s longtime rival in the region, Iran.

His comments came as unexpectedly harsh criticism from Saudi Arabia raised serious questions about the Bush administration’s Middle East policy.

Speaking to a summit meeting of Arab leaders in Riyadh last week, Saudi King Abdullah referred to the US presence in Iraq as an “illegitimate foreign occupation”.

US officials were dumbfounded by the portrayal of the costly US military operation that President Bush defends as a mission conducted at the request of the Iraq government to help stabilise the country.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rang the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, for an explanation of the king’s remarks.

But Dr Rice did not take the matter up directly with her Saudi counterpart, Prince Saud al-Faisal, in an apparent bid to avoid aggravating the rift.

Analysts saw Abdullah’s tough public stance as part of a move by the Saudi monarch to take the lead of a new pan-Arab movement to counter the rising influence of Shiite Iran.

In Iraq Sunday, a roadside bomb and three car bombs killed 14 people and wounded dozens as Iraq’s relentless insurgency and sectarian violence continued, officials said.

Copyright 2007 Associated Press

[LSD]

Don't underestimate Kissinger's intelligent, the man's clearly a war criminal, but calling him stupid just misses the point.

Our enemies are not drooling idiots, many of them are very smart people who have committed their often sizable personal reasources to serve their material and ideological interests.

Unfortunately, the left seems to be primarly composed of people who either grossly overestimate or grossly underestimate abilities of the bourgeoisie. Far too few recognize that they're just human, nothing more nothing less.

It's their material condition that makes them our class enemies, not their "evil genius" and certainly not their "stupidity".

[Janus]

The new Kissinger book seems to have "revealed" some more interesting information about him.

Nixon and Kissinger thought Vietnam War "unwinnable" (http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070403-043926-9675r)

Kissinger kept Nixon in the dark about the Yom Kippur War (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/pl_nm/nixon_kissinger_dc_2)

[Guerrilla22]

The fact that Kissinger said that the Iraq war was a mistake, merely means he doesn't agree with the methods used. Kissinger was a master at undermining other governments and gaining political clout from playing countries off of one another. If Kissinger was still involed in the US government under the Bush administration he might have advocated removing Saddam by poisoning Iraq's entire water supply, he's absolutely rutheless.

[Tekun]

It may be possible that the current administration sought his advice before the invasion took place and even now, he may have his hands in Iraq and Afghanistan
With all the cronyism and interfering interests in Washington, this sort of scenario is highly probable

[Janus]

Well, we know for certain that the Bush administration did seek advice from him during the Iraq war. And since Kissinger was a major player in US foreign policy for almost a decade, it would make sense if the White House did contact him beforehand.
Kissinger frequent advisor to White House (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/60minutes/main2047607_page3.shtml)

As far as his new beliefs go, they seem to have only slightly changed from his previous ones.

Lessons for an exit strategy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081101756_pf.html)

[invocation]

Is his the same Kissinger who planed the mass genocide of Aficans because they were "Security Threats" to the US ?

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249...inger_food.html (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_kissinger_food.html)

[Janus]

Well, that was only a plan. Kissinger's policies towards Vietnam, Cambodia, South America (mainly the Souther Cone), Pakistan, and East Timor had much more devastating concrete effects.