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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (54854)	9/12/2001 11:20:00 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I'm not sure if your reply was ironic or not, but on many of feathers in Kissinger's cap, the "enemy" status of the victims is a little marginal. Allende may not have been a good capitalist, but he was a good democrat, and the operation against him lead to a rather long hiatus in Chile for the democratic values we supposedly hold dear. Not to mention a few thousand dead people. Cambodia was officially neutral when the secret bombing started, and that little action didn't much help Sihanouk's delicate balancing act. To keep open the secret back channel to China during Nixon's initiative, K established this cozy relationship with Pakistan that lives on today, and weathered an early storm through the Pakistan civil war and India-Pakistan 1971 war. The death toll in that operation made the events of the last few days look pretty insignificant, but we stood fast with Pakistan there, while they were sending millions of refugees into India out of what is now Bangladesh. But best of all, there was the sabotage of the Paris peace talks in 1968. Basically the same terms were signed in 1972, after 4 more years. Most of the dead in those four years weren't American, but there were more than a few. Kissinger wasn't President, but by the Halada standards of complicity he was in way over his neck in all this stuff. Of course, Kissinger got his in the end. He was supposedly outflanked on the right in the Ford term by Cheney and Rumsfeld. Hank's been working off the dread taint of detente ever since. He's made quite a career as a bloviating pundit since then, but mercifully nobody's seen fit to put him back in an official position of power.