Stephen B. Young
Before the Trump Administration can execute a MAGA national security policy, the legacy of Henry Kissinger must be exorcized.
Kissinger’s legacy has been a curse for 49 years. His intellectual brilliance, his Harvard credentials, his skill in cultivating elite patrons by feeding their illusions of self-importance brought him power and wealth on false pretenses and at a cost to his country.
On January 9, 1971, Kissinger met secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Without consulting President Nixon, Kissinger decided the United States could effectively “win” the Vietnam War by allowing this sequence of events to unfold:
- the North and South sign a peace treaty;
- the United States withdraws its troops from South Vietnam;
- the North leaves its 13 divisions inside South Vietnam;
- the South has two years of freedom; and
- with massive Soviet and Chinese support, the North conquers the South.
After their meeting, Dobrynin reported to his Ministry in Moscow that Kissinger said: “ultimately it will no longer be the Americans’ concern, but that of the Vietnamese themselves, if some time after the U.S. troop withdrawal they start fighting with each other again.”
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