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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:
“There are people at our broadcast who are questioning the legitimacy of even doing an interview with you,” Koppel said. “They feel that strongly about what they consider, I’ll put it in language they would use, your criminality.”
“That’s a reflection of their ignorance,” Kissinger replied. Koppel brought up Kissinger’s role in the U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia, which ran from 1969 to 1973, killing perhaps as many as 150,000 civilians and hastening the Cambodian government’s overthrow by the genocidal Khmer Rouge. After some back and forth, Kissinger said, “This is a program you’re doing because I’m gonna be 100 years old. And you’re picking a topic of something that happened 60 years ago. You have to know that it was a necessary step. Now, the younger generation feels that if they can raise their emotions, they don’t have to think. If they think, they won’t ask that question.”
100 years old and still a total and complete shitbird. At least McNamara was able to countenance his crimes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/26/kissinger-death-memes/