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Title: Crisis : The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises: Based on the Record of Henry Kissinger's Hitherto Secret Telephone Conversations by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 0-7432-4910-0 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 25 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kissinger is an Icon of Foreign Policy
Comment: The book spells out how once again Liberals/Democrats are isolationist and defeatist. And putting two and two together we see the direct correlation between issues Kissinger faced in dealing with a Democratic congress, and with the problems Reagan faced in Nicaragua (with a Democratic congress voting funds for the Contras one year and taking them away the next), and the Clinton years.
Clinton, who is ultimately responsible for 9-11, and the malaise with which foreign policy was conducted in the 90's.
Yes, we certainly could have used a Kissinger or even a hawk like JFK or FDR during the 90's. Unfortunately, Kerry appears to be more like Clinton, weak on foreign policy, a UN suck up,and a lap dog for the European powers.
You can begin weeping for this nation now, if Kerry is elected over George Bush... clearly a green light for terrorist to attack our soil with impunity.
Rating: 2
Summary: Specific to Kissinger's section on Vietnam
Comment: Anyone who has read Kissinger extensively could predict what he would be saying in this book, and he did not disappoint. The same old story of the failure of the democrats, in the House and Senate, from 1973 until the Fall of Saigon, to provide the necessary resources, as Kissinger articulates them (primarily dollars), to support the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. What Kissinger does not address, nor has he in the volumes that he has written about himself, is the fact that Kissinger, the CIA, many of the diplomats on the ground in Saigon, as well as key members of the administration knew that the context of the war, in the "waning days" had dramatically changed. Through ports in Hanoi and Haiphong, the Russians provided the North Vietnamese Army(NVA) with sufficient military resources to support a massive build-up - in the form of artillery and armor - to ensure an NVA military victory. All the dollars Kissinger and the administration blamed the democrats for failing to appropriate, in order to shore up the Saigon government, would not have affected the war's outcome because the NVA had decided on a military victory and prepared for it. How, then, would increased dollars, given the American mood and cyncism of the time, from the democratically controlled Congress, made any difference, given the NVA military initiative? Kissinger reinforces his previously stated analyses, with more self-serving bias, as predicted.
Kissinger uses the method of transcribed telephone conversations to drive certain other points home -points to support a favorable image. When one reads a response to a Kissinger question, from Ambassador Martin, for example, the reader cannot deduce what Ambassador Martin really was thinking about the Kissinger question or even the man. The "response" is not telling. While admittedly, Kissinger and Ambassador Martin shared the same principles, for many reason, Martin was often sketpical of the arrogant, aloof Harvard professor.
Dennis W. Hallinan
Peninsula, Ohio
[email protected]
Rating: 1
Summary: Kissinger shows his incompetance once again
Comment: I don't know why I try to stomach reading books from a war criminal. I suppose we all must read and listen to the criminal mind so that we can understand why they become such monsters. I've read Hitler, Stalin, and Kissinger (and the rest). Don't buy this book...instead find yourself a copy of the book or documentary called "The Trial of Henry Kissinger".
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Title: Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 074321532X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership by Zbigniew Brzezinski ISBN: 0465008003 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg ISBN: 0375505857 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum ISBN: 0060013990 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz ISBN: 047146502X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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