Iraq: Kissinger's 'decent interval', take two...

[bridgit]

'At age 83, Henry Kissinger aims to recapture former glory - or ignominy as it were. Thirty-three years after being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace to Vietnam (he didn't), he is insinuating himself into the row over US Iraq policy. The prospect of seeing Kissingerian principles and methods of realpolitik applied to the mess in the Middle East makes one shudder.

Kissinger role models Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and Otto von Bismarck hardly made Central Europe a safer or better place in the 19th century. An inspection of Vietnam-era secret documents now declassified after the lapse of the mandatory 30-year period does not make for encouraging reading. On June 20, 1972, then-national security adviser Henry Kissinger told Chinese premier Zhou Enlai in the course of a four-hour meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK23Ak04.html

[salib]

1. So, what is the "decent interval" here?

And how can anyone come up with even the most convoluted excuse for why one could say that we have given a decent interval to terra-ists? Isn't that who we are fighting over there? Anyone?

Yeah, it will be tough to regurgitate that one from Henry K.