GLOBAL COLUMN©
BY TED CORDOVA
The return
of Dr. Strangelove?
Henry Kissinger,
a master deceiver of several U S. presidents, is back again as
a sort of post cold war "Dr.Strangelove".
"Who
better to investigate an unwarranted attack on America than the
man who used to instigate America's unwarranted attacks?",
asked edgy and frequently ironic columnist Maureen Dowd in The
New York Times.
President
Bush has just nominated Dr. K as head of the newly created commission
to investigate the political plot of the terrorist act of 9/11/01
agains the U.S.
For some observers
in the U.S. and abroad, it is also the master conspirator looking
into the greatest conspiracy of the 21st Century: Terrorism against
the democratic superpower that controls the new world disorder.
At the end of the day, it might be the proper designation: A modern
times Metternich searching into the maze of religious machiavelic
fundamentalism in today's World..
But, there
are other considerations of Historical value. Both moral and etical,
to say the least. Historians and Pundits believe Kissinger has
responsability in the following points: 1) Keeping the Vietnam
War going for years after he realized it was imposible to win;
2) Encouraging the illegal bombing of Camboya; 3) Supporting the
military coup in Chile against democratically elected president
Salvador Allende; 4) Counseling president Nixon to prosecute American
newspapers that published the "Pentagon Papers" about
Vietnam; 5) Wiretapping Journalists and even his own colleagues
in order to investigate leaks to the Media related to his erratic
Southeast Asia policy.
While in office, says Christopher Hitchens, Columnist for the
elitesque magazine Vanity Fair and author of a very critical book
about the former secretary of State and off-and-on adviser for
Republican presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, H.K. "organized
massive deceptions of Congress and secret bombings of Cambodia
and Laos, and then unleashing of unconstitutional methods by Nixon
and Kissinger to repress dissent from this illegal and atrocious
policy", wrote Hitchens in a recent article in Slate Magazine,
the powerful voice of MSN (Bill Gates) in the Internet www.
There are
already at least two countries where Dr K cannot visit without
risking being visited by law enforcement authorities, for his
responsability in political crimes in Chile during the dictatorship
of general Pinochet, who counted with Dr K's fervent support.
Those countries are Chile, France and probably Spain.
What could
Kissinger say about 9/11? Another disingenuous,temper-tantrum,secretive
report -to use some of his favorites words?
The cinema
genious Stanley Kubrick took the idea of Dr. Strangelove from
an almost unknown novel by Peter George, "Red Alert",
to create a pathetic foreign policy strategist with an obsession
for war and doomsday, and produced the classic movie, "Dr.Strangelove
and how I learned to love the bomb" with actor Peter Sellers,
who gave the emphasis in the madness of power.
People that know this, should not be worried. It is unlikely that
the "two-faced" thinking of Dr.S-K will get the attention
of the man in the Oval office. After all, his ears are wide open
basically to paying more attention to whom has been called by
Newsweek Magazine as the anti-Kissinger. She is none other than
the "Princes Warrior" , Condi Rice, a soft, straight
and why not, much more savvy in modern world affairs than the
already obsolete Dr. K.
With Condi,
who needs Strangelove, again?
BIP
