2009 Freedom Awards: Conversation with Henry Kissinger -- 10/08/2009

IRI honored former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger with its 2009 Freedom Award for his contribution to the security and progress of the United States. IRI Chairman Senator John McCain presented the award to Secretary Kissinger at an event in Washington, DC. Former Secretary of State and IRI Board Member Lawrence Eagleburger also spoke at the event, which marked IRIs 25th anniversary. At the event Secretary Kissinger and Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who is working on a biography of Secretary Kissinger, took part in a conversation discussing current foreign policy issues facing the United States. Ferguson asked for the Secretarys insights and thoughts on Afghanistan, Iran and U.S.-China relations. Click here to read more http://bit.ly/ctz6KS.

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[skardam]

boring control freak!

[XKUNXEntertainment]

FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER

BURN IT TO THE GOD DAMN GROUND

RON PAUL 2012 OR WORLD WIDE REVOLUTION NOVEMBER 5 , 2012

[Bastiat90]

Was Pinochet better than Allende? I can point to over 30 coups sponsored and supported by the Americans... would you like me to send you a list? Can you honestly say all of these were in support of anti-Marxists? What about Henry Kissinger's role in several assassinations and murders? He called it a travesty that the President cannot authorise assassinations. I'm a rightist and despise Kissinger as much as any leftist.

[Bastiat90]

The North can barely feed its own people let alone send an army in to attack the South, whose technological and logistic superiority is clear for all to see.

Using your corrupt logic, why did America not have troops in the Soviet Union, or China, to protect the populations from Marxist governments? Why did America give Eastern Europe to Stalin on a plate instead of supporting rebel movements?

Marxists seldom succeed in power, thus negating your penultimate point.

[Bastiat90]

Yes, because America has supported the Al-Assad regime as long as it suited their interests i.e. oil prices and regional stability. The Syrian regime is not Marxist, it is a dictatorship. If you're going to smear a regime at least have the honesty to do it properly.

[DrCruel]

@Bastiat90 In Syria, at this very moment, the Marxist Syrian regime is being fought against desperately by the Syrian people, practically without any outside help at all. If we intervene on their behalf, are we being "hypocrites"? When the US provided help to the El Salvadoran government, as the FMLN mined voting stations to prevent the people from voting overwhelmingly against them, were the Americans acting as "imperialists"?

[DrCruel]

@Bastiat90 The defense of South Korea from the North, the defense of South Vietnam from the North, resistance to Marxist coups in Iran, Chile, Cambodia, Nicaragua and Grenada, even aid to Muslims resisting slaughter in Afghanistan - all were characterized as "imperialistic" efforst by the US "hypocrites". In all cases where Marxists succeeded in gaining power, mass killings would follow.

Kissinger is hated by Leftists for the same reasons that the police are hated by criminals.

[DrCruel]

@Bastiat90 Regimes that were "propped up" during the latter part of the 20th century were invariably under assault by some Marxist seditionist faction or other. Sometimes the faction would not win, in which case it was lauded by Marxists for being a lost "progressive" movement that had the support of the people. Sometimes it would win, and thousands if not millions would die. Then the argument was made that the faction had not "truly" been Marxist.

[Bastiat90]

US foreign policy has always been characterised by hypocrisy: they claim to support freedom and liberty but any cursory analysis of its agenda shows that it props up regimes in the name of 'strategic' interests.

[Bastiat90]

A Marxist government is legitimate if elected by the people... dozens of governments have been removed at the behest of the US, with communism given as the reason: Syria and Greece in 1949, Guatemala in 1954, South Vietnam in 1955, Ecuador in 1960. In Kissinger's time Cambodia and Bolivia in 1970, El Salvador in 1972, Chile in 1973. Because America deemed these governments 'illegitimate' they were overthrown. When Ortega won in 1984, Reagan called it a sham even though everyone disagreed