Keith, I'm not an admirer of Kissinger either. I stopped believing in the validity of the Nobel Peace Prize when Kissinger won it in 1972 with co-recipient Le Duc Tho. I imagine Kissinger told Nixon that he wanted that prize. Kudos to Le Duc Tho for not going to that ceremony and subsequently rejecting that laurel.

Then, the following year there was the 1973 Nixon/Kissinger secret intervention in Chile with the torture and execution of so many innocent Chileans. Then, a year or two after that, there was the Ford/Kissinger decision about East Timor which resulted in so many more deaths.

I'm sure Kissinger would reply that I/we can't see the "big picture," but that would be a bogus, diversionary tactic to avoid honest accountability. Ref. Chile, in later years, Kissinger denied any connection to the Chile debacle and blamed it on the American ambassador to Chile at the time. Unfortunately for Kissinger, that ambassador was still alive at the time and said Kissinger's shifted blame was B.S.