Kissinger: Gassing Jews would not be a US problem

World News • December 2010 • Views: 1,133

“New tapes show Kissinger and Nixon opposed helping Soviet Jews escape Communist repression because it did not affect “US interests.”

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6 comments

Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Dec 11, 2010 2:46:59pm

Wow. Would anyone still defend Nixon with this tired “but he supported Israel” argument? And Kissinger is a surprise on this.

Stanley Sea Dec 11, 2010 2:52:46pm

Damn.

Bob Levin Dec 11, 2010 4:15:57pm

“The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” The New York Times on Saturday quoted Kissinger, then secretary of state, as saying on the tapes. “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

This is the perpetual debate in the State Department—is there a difference between humanitarian concerns and American concerns? The American public does not see a difference. For the American public, humanitarian issues—whether to act or let a tragedy occur—is a no-brainer. The fact the American foreign policy has made this distinction, and allowed humanitarian problems to not only happen but flourish, has caused generations of American youth to become radicalized.

And then the State Department apparatus creates another assignment of tracking radical activity in the US.

American interests, I suppose, are defined as acquiring natural resources, the flow of natural resources and products, and stopping interests hostile to the US. It’s very narrow, and there’s nothing moral about it. As we can see, not just from this instance, in government morals is a luxury, graft is a necessity.

Bob Levin Dec 11, 2010 4:17:36pm

Are a luxury. Morals are a luxury, graft a necessity.

Bob Levin Dec 11, 2010 4:29:12pm

Six months later, during the Yom Kippur War, Nixon rejected Kissinger’s advice to delay an arms airlift to Israel as a means of setting the stage for an Egypt confident enough to pursue peace; Nixon, among other reasons, cited Israel’s urgent need.

It also occurs to me, that none of the diplomatic corps, of any country, seems to know the first thing about peace, the psychology involved in bringing peace. And yet, this is their job, to negotiate treaties that maintain peace. Usually it gets down to bribery or quid pro quo—except in cases like the present negotiations in the Middle East, where one side, the PA, strongly objects to even the idea of offering quid to Israel.

As long as the real definition of politics is realpolitik, we will get the world we pay for.