Part One: Kissinger
Behind the Bastards
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Nostalgia and Personal Trauma
This chapter delves into the longing for the past as a response to modern challenges, connecting personal loss with historical figures. It also offers insights into the struggles of a prominent individual in their early American life, reflecting on family dynamics and cultural observations.
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We begin our epic six part series on Henry Kissinger: the Forest Gump of war crimes.
FOOTNOTES:
- https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-1923-1968-Idealist-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594206538
- https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979
- https://www.amazon.com/Kissingers-Shadow-Americas-Controversial-Statesman/dp/1627794492
- https://www.amazon.com/Henry-Kissinger-American-Power-Political/dp/0809095378
- https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/145552297X
- https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Genocide/dp/0307744620
- https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodiabombing_oct06.pdf
- https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/khmer-rouge-cambodian-genocide-united-states/
- https://www.history.com/news/nixon-war-powers-act-vietnam-war-cambodia
- http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Nixon%20Administration/Nixon%200958.pdf
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/the-myth-of-henry-kissinger
- https://etan.org/issues/kissinger.htm
- https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/kissingers-green-light-suharto/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/news/ford-and-kissinger-had-bigger-problems-we-will-understand-and-will-not.html
- https://newrepublic.com/article/78704/yet-another-disgrace-east-timor-genocide
- https://www.history.com/news/the-last-hours-of-the-nixon-presidency-40-years-ago
- https://www.tni.org/en/article/september-the-cruelest-month-in-chile
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/genocide-us-cant-remember-bangladesh-cant-forget-180961490/
- https://www.thedailystar.net/views/opinion/news/the-kissinger-yahya-plot-against-bangladeshs-liberation-2124321
- https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kissinger-nixon-tape-declassified-how-us-saved-west-pakistan-as-india-liberated-bangladesh-2655016
- https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/23/unholy-alliances-3
- https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/henry-kissinger-jimmy-carter-chile-214603/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/16/archives/rhodesian-response-to-kissinger-hinged-on-an-ambiguity.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/10/13/kissinger-has-words-of-sympathy-for-ian-smith/6bed019f-2125-4027-9a91-2070de8609c6/
- https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/angola-civil-war-1.htm
- https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB487/
- https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/22/2/58/95278/We-Are-Not-a-Nonproliferation-Agency-Henry
- https://www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/DannerHenryKissinger.pdf
- https://nymag.com/news/people/24750/index3.html
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/12/kissinger-vs-rumsfeld.html
- https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1018/101896.opin.column.1.html
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/us-kurdish-relationship-history-syria-turkey-betrayal-kissinger/
- https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=applebaum_award
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/07/1975-background-to-betrayal/aa973065-ea5e-4270-8cf9-02361307073c/
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