Henry Kissinger died last week after 100 years of death and destruction. More than most, he embodied the foreign policy establishment. Kissinger was an architect of liberal post-war foreign policy and perpetrator of many wars, coups and body counts. He advised every president from JFK to Joe Biden. While many liberals reviled him, he mentored many policy makers in Democratic administrations including Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
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In our latest episode, we talk about Kissinger’s life and legacy. We talk about Vietnam and Chile and how the liberal world order still functions today as it did in the 60s and 70s when Kissinger was at his peak.
We also talked about the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, more evidence that the U.S. and others scuttled peace talks in the past, and Biden’s obsession with wars abroad rather than taking care of problems inside the U.S.
We also get into the radical history of the week with a couple examples of anti-Kissingers (including Abby Hoffman and Mario Savio). We close with tribute to the Pogues’ late front man Shane MacGowan.
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