Pox Americana

Ex-Secretary of State, assassin and war-criminal Henry Kissinger was almost arrested in France a few years ago, barely escaping being held accountable for his war crimes & crimes against humanity. Then, while still serving as Secretary of Death, Donald Rumsfeld had to abandon plans to visit Germany after getting wind that authorities there planned to arrest him for his crimes.

For people like these, it's becoming a small world indeed. No more Euro Disney vacations. Heck, even Paraguay is turning out to be less than that mecca (oops! sorry!) for war criminals and murderers it once was. But Florida is still nice, if one can just avoid the other crocodiles. The wild ones can be bastards, too...

Kissinger so loved power that he was willing to kiss the ass of Richard Nixon, a drunk, racist, insane anti-Semite ('Henry, there are too many goddamed Jews in this administration!') after cynically switching loyalties from the Democrats. Of course it is a measure of the man that he also bit the asses he kissed; loyalty was never a strong point for this Nobel laureate, surely the most undeserving peace-prize winner in the history of the award. Fellow laureate (1973) Le Duc Tho of Viet Nam had the grace to decline, but not Henry. Never Henry.

Henry presided not only over the murder of the legally elected president of Chile, Salvatore Allende (mostly for business reasons, including the fact that the head of Pepsi Co. Donald Kendall, a Nixon pal, wanted him out) and the ascent of the vile and deadly Augusto Pinochet, but also 'Operation Phoenix' in Vietnam, responsible for approximately 50,000 bullets in the back of 50,000 Vietnamese heads. No charges, no lawyers, no trials. Sound familiar? Indeed.