Machtpolitik
From Greg Grandin, Kissinger’s Shadow:
Douglas Brinkley: You called Henry Kissinger a genius, and you get a kind of twinkle whenever you mention Kissinger. What is it about Henry Kissinger that you found so—
Alexander Haig: You don’t think there is something between us, I hope.
Brinkley: I don’t know.
Greg has the best footnotes.
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3 Comments
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Joel in Oakland
Good on Brinkley for tossing a knuckle-ball right back at Haig.
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Mmm, I can just smell that ‘ultimate aphrodisiac’.
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HK had his fans in the media, foremost among them his childhood buddy from Germany who never stopped gushing over the “genius” of this latter-day Clausewitz and Metternich rolled into one:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/01/16/ted-koppel-npr-and-henry-kissinger/