More from Henry Kissinger

  1. Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
  2. In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no percise idea of what to do with them.
  3. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army …
  4. The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from …
  5. A massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves. [sic]
  6. Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
  7. In our 'age of the expert' the expert has his constituency - those who have a vested interest in commonly held opinions; elaborating and de…
  8. If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America - and, indeed…

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