@mchill saidrecently deceased war criminal liked to read just like a human being who was connected to another human being.
I was never a fan of his political views, however like Charlie Munger (the late vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway) Kissinger maintained a structured day filled with reading, journaling, and work. Keeping one's mind active and focused on tasks requiring both creative and linear thinking seems to aid in longevity.
what is the point of this? trivia?
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@suzianne saidNixon ended the war, it was one of his campaign promises, to get us out of Vietnam..
He, along with Nixon, also managed to extend the time America spent in Vietnam, costing even more young American lives than had already been wasted in the lost war.
You know, the war Democrat president Kennedy started, and Democrat president Johnson expanded to enormous numbers.
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@soothfast saidWasn't Kissinger a proponent of population control?
I'm not sure I know what you mean.
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@jj-adams saidhopeless partisan hackery.
Nixon ended the war, it was one of his campaign promises, to get us out of Vietnam..
You know, the war Democrat president Kennedy started, and Democrat president Johnson expanded to enormous numbers.
Roads? Republicans.
Potholes? Demonrats
National security? Republicans
Taxes? Demonrats
Ended all war? Republicans
Started all war? Democrats
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@soothfast saidYes, blood on his hands.
Overall, was Kissinger an able statesman who made a positive contribution to humanity, or was he not? There is no shortage of folks who say he has considerable blood on his hands.
Yes, positive contribution to humanity.
The problem with Henry Kissinger was that held more power than one person should have. Nixon was drunk and checked out so Kissinger was running the show for awhile there.
If you look at his whole career, what I appreciate is that his opinion and viewpoint were non-uniform. Inconsistent. Both parties hated him at one point or another. I think the ability to change ones mind about things dependent on the situation is an extremely valuable lesson in humility. He made very grave decisions as a realist not hog-tied to ideology or dogma.
We need more minds like Henry Kissinger, wielding less power as individuals but open to new ideas, collectively thinking critically about policies and their long-term effect on humanity.
Our current group of political leaders do not possess the ability to change their minds about anything. Compromise is impossible. Debate is meaningless. This is terribly toxic.
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@suzianne saidAll to fight communism.
He, along with Nixon, also managed to extend the time America spent in Vietnam, costing even more young American lives than had already been wasted in the lost war.
And they want you to believe socialism is a huge failure that cannot survive long without collapsing under it's own weight. How much money did the Vietnam war cost us?
Fighting an inevitable failure is that expensive? The elite capitalists are obviously scared out of their boots that socialism might succeed and turn into communism and most people will like it. Why else would they fight it like cancer before it spreads? Remember the "domino effect" analogy? They fear communism. They cannot control communism.
Control freaks hate communism. It is a threat to their control. Anyone who aspires to dominate the world must fight communism. Anyone who aspires to stick it to the control freaks should support Marxism. Stick it to the man before he enslaves you.
Inflation is how they taxed people to pay for the Vietnam war so people would not catch on to how expensive it is to fight communism. Nipping communism in the bud sure is expensive. Just think how much they would tax you to spend enough money to fight communism if it actually popped up for real?
If communism actually existed they would have to start a war to overthrow it.
They cannot let it spread and dominate the world at the same time. They would have to destroy it. That is what power freak fascists do.
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@jj-adams saidIf he was he would have killed himself before he lived a whole century. He wanted other people to die so he and the Rockefellers could hoard resources for themselves. Isn't that why people support population reduction?
Good for him if he was.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12349764/
What is good about population reduction and how do you think it should be achieved? Genocide? Sterilizing people without them knowing it? Killing them in war?
It is easy to say there are too many people on the planet, but nobody wants to talk about how they would do it because there is no ethical way to achieve it. You could kill yourself, but you are too narcissistic to do that. You want other people to die, right?
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@jj-adams saidNixon was out in August 1974, and the war ended in April 1975.
Nixon ended the war, it was one of his campaign promises, to get us out of Vietnam..
You know, the war Democrat president Kennedy started, and Democrat president Johnson expanded to enormous numbers.
How did he end the war again?
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@jj-adams saidMhmmm… let’s fact check this, shall we?
Nixon ended the war, it was one of his campaign promises, to get us out of Vietnam..
You know, the war Democrat president Kennedy started, and Democrat president Johnson expanded to enormous numbers.
Nixon was president from 1969 to 1974…
Are you suggesting it took him 5 years to stop the war?
Also… the secret bombing of Cambodia… that was Nixon…
He did reduce the number of US troops in Vietnam though. That much is true.
But the Vietnamization was about getting the Vietnamese to do what the US troops failed to do and support them with air and artillery… so, less US deaths…
All in all, even if one did argue that Nixon and Kissenger “ended” the Vietnam war, it’s still a stain on their already soiled sheets.