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.
—anthony bourdain, a cook's tour
Kissinger, an influential Cold War defense intellectual at Harvard, had access to members of the diplomatic delegation to the Paris talks. He used it to feed information from the negotiations to Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign – a campaign whose defeated GOP rival, David Rockefeller, Kissinger advised; and despite Kissinger’s closer political ties to the coterie around Hubert Humphrey, Nixon’s Democratic rival...Kissinger materially sabotaged the only chance for an end to the war in 1968 as a hedged bet to ensure he would achieve power in Nixon’s administration or Humphrey’s. A true tally will probably never be known of everyone who died so Kissinger could be national security adviser.
—spencer ackerman, Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
in the event that you're fuzzy on precisely to what degree he was involved in bringing death to vietnam and cambodia, this rolling stone article makes for a very thorough accounting of his career (& kudos to @jakobvongunten for linking it to me.) it is supremely grim stuff. the man lived to 100 years old, so i am hard-pressed to call this justice. but: it is at the very least a consequence long overdue
