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The Legacy of Henry Kissinger

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The Irony of Kissinger's Approach to Violence

Kissinger personally guided secret indiscriminate bombing over Cambodia, which led to as many as 150,000 civilian deaths. American warplanes bombed swaths of lands and destroyed villages that had no relation to the fighting. "Sometimes you have to use other violence to stop the worst violence," Kissinger would say.

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