Does anyone understand foreign affairs better than Henry Kissinger?

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Condi Rice has the chops to match up with Kissinger. Too bad she's tainted goods. However, Kissinger is a massively failed political operative who totally botched Vietnam, capitulated in the Paris accords and who's decisions ultimately brought defeat upon South Vietnam by backstabbing our S Vietnam friends, and because he was too afraid to use the power of the United States because, unlike Reagan sixteen years later they (he and Nixon) were still afraid of Russia and trying hard to achieve detente.

Granted, the Cold War was very frigid, but ultimately, his own arrogance lacked balls.

Looking like that, he talked his way into Jill St. John's bed. Nuff said

No one understands it better than HK, but no one sells us out more than him either. He's a cuck multiculturalism globalist pos.

Kissinger speaks pragmatically about "world order" but I don't think you will find any hints in his policies that he is globalist that wants some one world government or some extra power for the UN.

We do have a different world order than we had 25 years ago. No question about that.

Read this exert from a column Kissinger wrote in the WSJ:

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For the U.S., this will require thinking on two seemingly contradictory levels. The celebration of universal principles needs to be paired with recognition of the reality of other regions' histories, cultures and views of their security. Even as the lessons of challenging decades are examined, the affirmation of America's exceptional nature must be sustained. History offers no respite to countries that set aside their sense of identity in favor of a seemingly less arduous course. But nor does it assure success for the most elevated convictions in the absence of a comprehensive geopolitical strategy.

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When he speaks of globalization he speaks in terms of economics:

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Globalization views the world as one market in which the most efficient and competitive will prosper. It accepts — and even welcomes — the fact that the free market will relentlessly sift the efficient from the inefficient, even at the cost of economic and social dislocation.

But the extreme versions of globalization tend to neglect the mismatch between the world’s political and economic systems. Unlike economics, politics divides the world into national units. And while political leaders may accept a certain degree of suffering for the sake of growth in their economies, they cannot survive as advocates of near-permanent austerity — especially if their policies can be presented as imposed from abroad.

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I have never heard him advocating world government or abandonment of sovereignty.

You really should just continue to rail at movie production tax credits. Suits you better.

I don't know if he's currently at the top of his game, but as far as knowledgeable is concerned, I really can't think of anyone who comes close to him.

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Kissinger is the ultimate embodiment of the state. He believes in the inevitability of a grand and universal hegemon, and desires for that hegemony to be a coalition of willing states. he opposes economic freedom and promotes total war, brush fire war, unconventional war, and economic war over free trade and individual economic cooperation. He is the statist spokesman for the world and his ideas are deadly and counter to prosperity for Americans

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I would like some link to that.

One of his most controversial acts was to assist Pinochet in the overthrow of the socialist so that capitalism would prosper in Chile. "The Chilean Miracle" LINK

His actions were for the pragmatic benefit of the USA. What did he do that was counter to "prosperity for Americans"?

What do you think of this quote?

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History offers no respite to countries that set aside their sense of identity in favor of a seemingly less arduous course

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Sounds to me like sense of identity is pretty important in his mind.