Elder statesman Henry Kissinger, who was never tried or convicted of anything, died on Nov. 29 at the age of 100.
While communists and enemies of the state cheer this passing, real Americans and leaders mourn the death of a role model.“He was a friend,” Hillary Clinton said of the man whose counsel she relied upon as Secretary of State. “We shared a belief in continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order.”
Kissinger is remembered as a hero so committed to the cause that he was willing to cripple independent countries to achieve it. A price some may say was too great in defense against an imagined and manufactured enemy, but that no one can deny America leads the world in paying.
As prominent historian Niall Ferguson points out; accusing Kissinger of war crimes “requires a double standard” because “nearly all the Secretaries of State … and nearly all the Presidents” have taken similar actions.
Will Miller, sophomore business and political science double major, echoes that; pointing out that “if America was subject to international law and played by the same rules we hold our enemies to, where would that get us? Do you want all our leaders convicted of war crimes for the war crimes they’ve done?”
Funeral plans for this leviathan of geopolitics have yet to be announced, but rest assured that it will be fancier and with more admiring words from world leaders than the crowded, anonymous mass graves he’s usually associated with.
