Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100

His foreign policy record was mostly one of massive bloodshed and failure.

Henry Kissinger is finally dead. There will be many essays about him and his legacy, but this article from Spencer Ackerman gets to the heart of the matter:

Not once in the half-century that followed Kissinger’s departure from power did the millions the United States killed matter for his reputation, except to confirm a ruthlessness that pundits occasionally find thrilling. America, like every empire, champions its state murderers.

Kissinger’s career and his decades of influence after leaving government were irrefutable proof that there was and is absolutely no accountability in our system for any powerful person. During his time as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Kissinger helped to prolong and expand a fruitless and brutal war in Southeast Asia with illegal bombing in Laos and Cambodia, he abetted at least one genocide in Bangladesh, and the policies he supported paved the way for another in Cambodia. His foreign policy record was mostly one of massive bloodshed and failure.