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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.

Jeff Jacoby: Yes, genocide is 'an American concern' - '...What would prompt a man like Kissinger to say something so grotesque? Was it a "Jewish inferiority complex," as Shmuley Boteach writes in the Jerusalem Post, that had the first Jewish secretary of state "bending over backward to show he bears no special kinship with his people"? Was it "an instinctive affection for totalitarians of all stripes," as Christopher Hitchens poisonously claims? Was it just another instance of what Kissinger's biographer Walter Isaacson called a "yearning to be liked" and an effort "to impress Nixon with gutsy hardline advice"? I have no theory to offer about Kissinger's psychology. Nor do I think one is necessary. For the simple and heartbreaking fact is that the position he took in that long-ago conversation with Nixon -- that not even genocide should properly be considered "an American concern," or be allowed to interfere with the preservation of global stability -- has time and again driven US foreign policy...'

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