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2023-11-30 -Obits-

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Posted by Fred 2023-11-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [27 views ] Top

#1 Just when we thought the Communist Chinese economy couldn't get any worse.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-30 00:13|| 2023-11-30 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 "...in the service of peace."

LOL, really? Since when? [US in general, that is.]

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-11-30 02:27|| 2023-11-30 02:27|| Front Page Top

#3 brought the Yom Kippur War to an end

5 minutes BEFORE Israel gained a decisive victory.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-30 02:51|| 2023-11-30 02:51|| Front Page Top

#4 For some reason when I looked at Kissinger, I was reminded of Peter Sellers as Dr. Strange Love, the wheelchair diplomatic councilor

Posted by NN2N1 2023-11-30 07:14|| 2023-11-30 07:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Service to Country

In 1943, the year he became a U.S. citizen, Dr. Kissinger was drafted into the U.S. Army, where his intellect and fluency in German would make him a perfect candidate for military intelligence. His intellectual abilities earned him a placement in the Army Specialized Training Program, an opportunity that sent him from combat training to college instead. Dr. Kissinger was sent to Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he studied engineering, read books on history in his spare time, and tutored other students.

In 1944, however, the Army canceled the program, and Dr. Kissinger was returned to Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. From Camp Claiborne, Dr. Kissinger was assigned to the 84th Infantry Division, which set sail from New York to Europe in September 1944 as part of the pursuit phase of the war. When he arrived back in his homeland of Germany, Dr. Kissinger was quickly selected to become a German translator for General Alexander Bolling. Later, in the Battle of the Bulge, when most of the division was forced to withdraw, Dr. Kissinger volunteered to stay behind to be part of hazardous counter-intelligence duties, making good use of his German.

When the 84th Division later captured the German town of Krefeld on the Rhine River, Dr. Kissinger became the town’s administrator — relying on his language skills and his understanding of the German culture to command authority. He succeeded in restoring order and building a civilian government in the town in little more than a week, a success that enabled him to transfer to the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC). The mission was to identify Nazis and members of the Gestapo in areas that the Allies had captured. His work there would earn him a Bronze Star.

Dr. Kissinger’s work in the CIC would continue even after the war had ended, as he was called upon to provide order and detect Nazis in Hesse. He kept any feelings of anger or resentment toward the Germans — who had forced his family to flee less than a decade earlier — beneath the surface. Dr. Kissinger operated with remarkable restraint.

In 1946, he was discharged from the Army, having obtained the rank of sergeant. As he would later reflect, his military service would become for him the highlight of his career, and also one that affirmed his American identity and gave him confidence.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-30 07:24|| 2023-11-30 07:24|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Years ago, when it was finally confirmed that Kissinger knew we had left people behind in Vietnam and Laos, there was a vicious editorial cartoon I've never forgotten: it showed Kissinger on a cross, looking angrily up to the sky and saying, "Forgive them, Lord - they don't seem to remember who I am!"

I hope the first soul he meets is Le Duc Tho, asking, "Hot enough for ya?"

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-11-30 07:35|| 2023-11-30 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ I have a friend who worked and traveled internationally with the MIA commission at the Pentagon in the 1980's timeframe. The assignment still leaves him with a very bad taste for our government.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-30 07:44|| 2023-11-30 07:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes. Realpolitik - the proposition that the best you can ever hope for is an accommodation of evil, a compromise with it. And if more evil men arise to game the system set up that way, that's just "the cost of doing bidness."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-30 07:48|| 2023-11-30 07:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref: MikeKozlowski comment about US POW's still held.

While I was working at Ft. Bragg it was general knowledge there was a 1984 plan for the SFOD-_ HRT group to liberate a Laos POW camp which held about 20+ US POW's.

The mission was canceled, after the load out was already underway.

RUMOR WAS...it was due the US Reagan/Daddy Bush election in a few months and Daddy Bush being Ex-CIA Dir. knew there were POW's still being held.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-11-30 08:01|| 2023-11-30 08:01|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Cholutle Thrans9751 2023-11-30 09:10|| 2023-11-30 09:10|| Front Page Top

#11 His legacy has aged like a Cracker Barrel casserole left on a summery SF pavement.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-30 10:05|| 2023-11-30 10:05|| Front Page Top

#12 His legacy has aged like a previously eaten Cracker Barrel casserole left on a summery SF pavement.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-30 10:31|| 2023-11-30 10:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Rolling Stone dances on Henry Kissinger's grave with brutal 'good riddance' headline: 'Finally, the war criminal is dead'

Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-30 10:44|| 2023-11-30 10:44|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Well, after their disasterous "250 All-time Best Guitarists" list, they had to get something sorta right...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-30 10:49|| 2023-11-30 10:49|| Front Page Top

#15 ^Skid, in my vision there are corn kernels.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-30 11:45|| 2023-11-30 11:45|| Front Page Top

#16 I had no idea of his WWII history, and for that I am impresssed. Yet ultimately, two things with massive import, argue that his legacy if forever tainted with moral failure and historic nearsightedness. The Abandonment of POW's because of political expediency after the Viet Nam War loss, marking the evolution of the attitude that soldiers are merely units of political power, not Patriots whose lives we must always value and never leave behind and abandon to expediency. The second is the Opening to China, considered a master stroke, and directly the start of American economic decline through our massive de-industrialization and foolish belief in their massively accelrated industrial/economic growth as risk-less to our worldwide competitive advantages at the time. Fast forward to today, and the future our grandchildren face, and anyone who ever read Durant would know it was foolhardy to open the doors to the Middle Kingdom and its political skills and hegemonic ambitions.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-11-30 14:13|| 2023-11-30 14:13|| Front Page Top

#17 Thank you Dr. Kismyass for transforming a third-world country into one that will likely surpass the USA economically, militarily and politically. Oh, did I mention it’s a communist dictatorship?

Posted by Jack Salami 2023-11-30 21:31|| 2023-11-30 21:31|| Front Page Top

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