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“ Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

-the late, great Anthony Bourdain



Very true. Fortunately, however, there are enough reasons to want to beat Kissinger to death with your bare hands that you don't have to actually go to Cambodia. A trip to the library, or a google search or 3 ought to be enough.


It's not clear to me why Kissinger gets the blame for that, when the US was bombing Cambodia since 1965, and when increasing bombing of Cambodia was part of Nixon's own madman theory.


After reading this I knew he was aligned with Christopher Hitchens and sure enough…




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