![]() ![]() He called it “weltanschaüng” or worldview. If there is one lesson, however, to take away from his years in office and the decades since, it is the sweep of his utterly rational and dispassionate view of the world and all that makes it tick. Most of the demonstrators were only barely alive when these events were unspooling, when Kissinger was without question deeply affecting the outcome of each.īut the catalog of their grievances only testifies to the broad scope of people, places and events that he has influenced in the course of a remarkable career. ![]() The events they were protesting were decades in the past – at the peak of the Vietnam War and innumerable other crises that then-US Secretary of State Kissinger had done his best to drive to some rational conclusion. ![]() This time demonstrators were targeting “his history concerning Timor-Leste (East Timor), West Papua, Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Angola and elsewhere.” They were back three years later when Kissinger was speaking there again. ![]()
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