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Kissinger's Killing Fields / Nick Turse

This Is Hell!

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The Disappointing History of Henry Kissinger

Suare's survivors of the US war in Cambodia were left to grapple with loss, trauma and unanswered questions. They did so largely alone and invisible to the wider world including two Americans whose leaders had upended their lives. What does it say about celebrity when it as easily includes a movie star as it does a person who has committed crimes against humanity? Suare: I mean, what can I say? It's exceptionally disheartening. Kissinger has been able to manipulate the press in very sophisticated ways,. create this myth around himself that he's always the smartest guy in the room.

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