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To the victors go the spoils, and the war crime trials
Four decades after Henry Kissinger left office, his influence on the national security state can still be widely felt, as the United States engages in declared and undeclared wars across the globe. Kissinger served as national security adviser and secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations and helped revive a militarized version of American exceptionalism.
During his time in office, Henry Kissinger oversaw a massive expansion of the war in Vietnam and the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia. In Latin America, declassified documents show how Kissinger secretly intervened across the continent, from Bolivia to Uruguay to Chile to Argentina. In Chile, Kissinger urged President Nixon to take a quote, "harder line" against the Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. On September 11th, 1973, another September 11th, Allende was overthrown by the U.S.-backed general, Augusto Pinochet. In Jakarta, Indonesia, Kissinger and President Gerald Ford met with the Indonesian dictator, General Suharto, to give the go-ahead to invade East Timor, which Indonesia did on December 7, 1975. .
While human rights activists have long called for Kissinger to be tried for war crimes, he remains a celebrated figure in Washington and beyond. Who are the war criminals? The war criminals are usually those who lost the war, and are prosecuted by the victors, who were often just as ruthless and vicious, or more so--after all, they won! There are few “righteous victors” in war. In fact, most wars simply consist of one set of evildoers or unrighteous forces fighting another set! And to the victors go the spoils, and the war crime trials.
Ted Rudow III, MA
While human rights activists have long called for Kissinger to be tried for war crimes, he remains a celebrated figure in Washington and beyond. Who are the war criminals? The war criminals are usually those who lost the war, and are prosecuted by the victors, who were often just as ruthless and vicious, or more so--after all, they won! There are few “righteous victors” in war. In fact, most wars simply consist of one set of evildoers or unrighteous forces fighting another set! And to the victors go the spoils, and the war crime trials.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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