innocent people. I blame him because I remember reading one of his books as a text in a course at university in the early 1960s. Even then, I recognized the fallacies of his theories. I have never been a Communist. I do not support extreme socialism of any kind. I lived in Europe and liked some of the socialist programs and strongly disliked others. But I believe that every nation should be free to make its own choices about its internal economic organization. We must respect the right of others to make mistakes. I blame Kissinger because he saw the world in terms of polarized power structures rather than in terms of human beings. He did not share the fundamentally AMERICAN view of human values or the dream of individual freedom that of Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, Tom Paine and other great Americans. He was the product of a NAZI education in his early childhood in Germany whether he can admit that or not. He is a militant who believes he is right and everyone else is wrong. I have disliked his ideas since the early 1960s. I recommend that DUers read his books to know who he is and what kind of man has guided our foreign policy for so many years. Because he has been a coach and adviser to one president after the other. Much of our national security apparatus is structured on his ideas. And they are not consistent with the ideals that our country was founded on. Read them for yourself. Here is a link to the book I read. I hated it.
http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Weapons-Foreign-Policy-Kissinger/dp/0393004945/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252701141&sr=1-7Kissinger was born as Heinz Alfred Kissinger (HAK) in Fürth, Bavaria to Jewish parents, Louis Kissinger (1887-1982), a schoolteacher, and Paula Stern (1901-1998). He has a younger brother, Walter Kissinger. The surname Kissinger was first taken by his great-great-grandfather, Meyer Löb, in 1817 after the city of Bad Kissingen.<5> In 1938, fleeing Nazi persecution, his family moved to New York. Kissinger was naturalized a U.S. citizen on June 19, 1943, while in military training at Camp Croft in Spartanburg, South Carolina, aged 20.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_KissingerPlease note that Hitler lived in Germany in the aftermath of the great inflation and in the early years of the Third Reich of Hitler. That is why I say he was educated by the NAZIs. The influence of German thought during that time is fundamental to his ideas as are certain German philosophical ideas.
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