[Peace-discuss] What Kissinger Said: "I Do Not Believe That We Can Make Conditions"

[C. G. Estabrook]

For today's quiz, name (without googling) the pundit who expresses this 
generally accurate opinion of Kissinger, McCain and Obama:

"...the true farce and disgrace is that this increasingly glassy-eyed old 
blunderer and war criminal [sc. Kissinger], who has been wrong on everything 
since he first authorized illicit wiretapping for the Nixon gang, should be 
cited as an authority by either nominee, let alone by both of them. Meanwhile, I 
repeat my question from two weeks ago: Does Sen. Obama appreciate, or do his 
peacenik fans and fundraisers realize, just how much war he is promising them if 
he is elected? Once again on Sept. 26 in Mississippi -- at the end of a week 
when American and Pakistani forces had engaged in their first actual direct 
firefight -- he repeated his intention of ignoring the Pakistani frontier when 
it came to hot pursuit of al-Qaida. Out-hawked on this point, as he was nearly 
out-doved on the Kissinger one, McCain was moderate by comparison. Obama went on 
to accuse Iran of having built more centrifuges than most people think it has. 
This allegation has a confrontational logic of its own, above and beyond the 
minor issues of preconditions and the 'level' of diplomacy ... the debate would 
look more intelligent, and be conducted on a higher plane, if it excluded a 
discredited pseudo-expert who has trampled on human rights, vandalized the U.S. 
Constitution, deceived Congress, left a trail of disaster and dictatorship 
behind him, and deserves to be called not a hawk or a dove but a vulture."


C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> It shows to what farcical depths the presidential election has sunk that it 
> seems important to decide which of these nonentities has correctly quoted the
> small-minded war criminal Henry Kissinger...