and, as far as i am concerned, the world is a better place today...admittedly only marginally so since much of what this secretary of state, national security advisor, and war criminal did is still impacting the world...but the author is dead and good fucking riddance...instrumental in widening the war in vietnam into cambodia and laos and propagating nixon"s "madman theory"...backing genocidal campaigns by the pakistanis against the bengalis and the indonesian atrocities towards the east timorese...while i cannot find any direct evidence of his involvement in pinochet's coup against allende he did say before allende's election "the issues are too important for the chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves"...no arrogant or imperial thinking there...a power junkie who did not care what carnage his policies left behind as long as he won...the only positive thing i can thinkl of that he did was to accept nixon's resignation...
if i believed in hell i would suspect you could find henry in an inner circle...perhaps bunking with maggie thatcher and ayn rand...he deserves and obituary along the lines of the one h.l. mencken wrote for william jennings bryan
https://www.reddit.com/r/saltyobituaries/comments/8p3ken/hl_mencken_in_memoriam_wjb_1925/
No comments:
Post a Comment