Kissinger jokes

Kissinger's work has many examples of what decent people would find enormous inversions of justice - like for example that he was given the Nobel prize for bringing an end to the Vietnam war, when he was in actuality responsible for things the massive bombing of Cambodia as part of that war. It was famously and appropriately labeled 'the death of satire' when it happened.

Chomsky is not usually given to humor, and one of the few and classic examples in his writing is in relation to Kissinger, whose guts he really hates. Recounting another of the large-scale inversions of justice that Kissinger was responsible for, Chomsky with savage bitterness, comments: "While K is always good for a little comic relief..."

And finally one from that fantastic commentator on world affairs, Gary Trudeau of Doonsbury. In a series of strips, Kissinger is visiting faculty at a local Washington univ and taking a seminar course while doing his stuff as Secy. of State. While he tries to use the seminar to talk about realpolitik and world domination and such cool stuff, there are one or two idealists in the class who keep bringing up useless questions about truth justice and the suffering of the common man. Finally Kissinger in frustration bursts out "Human rights! Human rights! I'm sick and tired of human rights!"

Touche. Sometimes I feel a similiar sentiment : "Climate change! Climate change! I'm sick and tired of climate change!"

For perhaps a more rounded and fair portrayal of Kissinger, see the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger