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Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

After Words

CHAPTER

Henry Kissinger: A Memoir of the 20th Century

There are a lot of people in this country that don't like him. They don't, they remember Vietnam. And he moved closer to China in order to balance against the Soviet Union. He and President Nixon withdrew more troops from Vietnam in a quicker period of time than the Gaul withdrew from Algeria. I have no doubt that with all his faults and all the library of books written against him that he will be remembered as a significant statesman of the 20th century.

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