Flashback: Christopher Hitchens' LAST WORDS for Henry Kissinger
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- A look back on one of the last times the late Christopher Hitchens was asked for comment on the now-late Henry Kissinger.
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Henry Kissenger led a long and healthy life, an opportunity he denied to millions of others.
It was not in any way healthy!!
Low life .
Kissinger, a thoroughly reprehensible human being.
…but enough about his good points
Kissinger was the Jewish equivalent of Hitler.
I would argue that he is one of the WORST human beings to have ever lived.
Absolutely
My only regret on Kissinger's death is that he has avoided a war crimes criminal court.
The international criminal court was set up by people like him, to protect them and persecute their enemies.
He's an atheist Zionist. They above Gentile laws.
He won't be avoiding anything
nice fantasy@@lauriewilson4016
He will have to answer in the court of God
Henry Kissinger was an expert on structural violence.
“Personal violence is for the amateur in dominance, structural violence is the tool of the professional. The amateur who wants to dominate uses guns; the professional uses social structure.” -Johan Galtung
yep and i,ll bet if you rolled your sleeves up he would shit himself ,what a vile specimen ,obviously God didnt want him
It's a sign of a coward to kick a man when he's down, but it's beyond mere words to describe someone who kicks a man when he's dead.
Henry Kissinger was a larger than life individual with an enormous intellect who was dedicated to confronting those who spent their lives trying to butcher Jews and destroy Israel.
''THE KING (HENRY KISSINGER) IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING''.
@@Berlitz81 I hope you're happy in your deluded state.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] *but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.* Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
@@Berlitz81 Stop cheering tools...
Zionism became a tool of the British Empire during WW1.
After WW2, the hegemon causing problems in the Levant and the ME in general, became Washington DC.
The Cold War and "oil" (interests), geopolitical/grand strategy strategic interests (like military bases, or the control of geographical chokepoints), was the reason for *all* of the US/collective West's meddling in the ME for more than 100 years...
From a position of POWER, the USA/collective West used and still uses, the age-old strategy of "divide and rule" over ALL these minor powers in the Middle East and therefore the Levant.
The USA/collective West is "classifying" the terrorists *they initially created with their own desire to CONTROL and DOMINATE the world,* as terrorists...
*It's "divide and rule".*
Stand up to the hegemon, and one becomes the outgroup.
It's ALWAYS divide and rule if governments defend wrongs against the wishes of most of its inhabitants. For the "dividers", the resulting division is always good. They can rule over the fear, the discord, manage the "finger pointers", and moderate the "pointed at" alike.
The "winners"?
Those who act like the historical "Rome" in the background, pulling the strings of POWER, affording favoratism to chosen ones, for their own aims and goals.
It's how "divide and rule" works...
I was wounded in combat in Vietnam. I saw too many people die for reasons I could not put into words. After somehow surviving that train wreck I read what I could about Kissinger and McNamara. They were sociopathic/psychopathic/whatever war criminals. For years I carried handcuffs in my car on the off chance that I might get close enough to attempt a citizen's arrest. If I couldn't get close I was going to throw the handcuffs at them. My actions would have been futile and I would have paid dearly but that's how angry I was at those architects of death, torture, destruction, chaos, etc.
McNamara at least admitted he was wrong and regretted it, Kissinger didn’t care he was too evil.
You should read Eustace Mullins
Would have been poetic justice, at least.
Thank you for your service 🫡💜🇺🇲 you're justified w your anger 😎👍🏼
This Total & Permanent Disabled USAF Vietnam Veteran concurs with your assessment.
In a just universe, Hitchens would have lived long enough to write Kissinger's obituary. It would have been the most appropriate final word to a villanous life. Rest in Peace, Christopher. Rot in Hell, Henry.
God I miss Hitchens so much.
Unfortunately, he was a big backer of the Iraq war.
@@henryfung6789That's where he lost me
@@henryfung6789 Yeah that fuckin’ bothers me. I would love to sit down with him today and ask why, but in hindsight.
Hitchens was an opportunistic pro-war pundit.
@@henryfung6789he would have backtracked by now given how it turned out
All I know is he didn’t operate solo! He had plenty of support!
"the Swamp " is still running the show ,regardless of which party is in front .
@@mikeboate208 yes!
Will always Admire Hitchens immensely, he nails it 100% in that Kissinger had remorse, never any self-reflection, the evil ghoul to the end. His disciplines Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Victoria Nuland and so many others follow in his footsteps all too well.
Madeline Albright and Hillary Clinton were disciples of Zbigniew Brzezinski (who hated Kissinger), not Kissinger. Rumsfeld and Cheney didn’t like detenté and were successful in marginalizing Kissinger during the Ford Administration. Victoria Nuland is a disciple of Cheney and Rumsfeld.
You may mean disciple.
You mean 'no remorse' js
Hitchins was a twonk for arguing with his brother on lraq invasion after it was known there were no WMDS
We heard from David Kelly before the war there none
Entertaining orator, establishment shill
And Hitchens the ultimate hypocrite and betrayer cheered on the slaughter of Iraqis and Afghans. Rot in hell with Kissinger
@@ScottDonnelly-gs4xm yes, thank-you
ICON, LEGEND, Christopher Hitchens, Rest In Peace.
He kind of went off the rails on Islam, to the extent of his unconscionable support for the iraq war.
@@David-iv6je pobody's nerfect.
Poor booze soaked Hitch.
@Logiconfire he was drunk all the time but he was still a better man than you.
Peter Hitchens is also a good man
The loss of one so unesteemed is not even worth addressing.
Not in this case, unfortunately. Addressing it as a "loss" might be questionable, but we have to analyze what this b*stard did, how he did it, possibly "why", and how to avoid more of these people (unfortunately, we're going in the exact opposite direction).
To report it may lead some unaware of his works and maybe teach them how to spot and stop others like him from getting in control.
YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!
Sadly no longer with us. I always found the late Christopher Hitchens very interesting.
"You have not begun to appreciate the depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom of not merely the latest Great War (World War 1) but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it. Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone." - Marclis Eli Ravage. Century Magazine, February - 1926.
This should be pinned to the top and Kissinger's relations to the guilty made plain.
And he was given a Nobel Peace Prize😢 The irony. The absurdity. The utter hypocrisy.
saw you guys for the fist time on Jimmy Dore and you guys are an awesome bunch :)
Same here - from Jimmy Dore. These guys are impressive. Subscribed immediately.
I honestly don’t know much about Kissinger but if Hitch has a problem with someone there is a damn good reason. His track record of calling out terrible people is very solid.
Mother Teresa the Hells Angel was a good one.
@@mitchjames9350 Exactly!
He didn’t have a problem with the neocons starting the Iraq war and causing mayhem and destruction for a few decades. His track record is far from spotless
@@DizzyNLD I agree he was a bit of a war hawk himself.
@@DizzyNLD he lost his mind time to time. I said solid not spotless.
Remember that Barbara Walters was "very close" with Kissinger, too. (Government/Media Complex goes back a long way.)
We need you back Christopher!
I remember that Kissinger was admired, as though he were a pop star. Little did we know.
It was the media that pumped him up so much. One needed only to pay attention to what he was doing, and failing to do, that was the real tip off.
Kissinger got to live nearly 40 years more than Hitchens.... same old story, the good die young. The evil linger.
Living to 100 was his biggest mistake....One should never keep the Devil waiting
I can’t help but think that the great lord in heaven did keep Kissinger alive as long as he could, to avoid heaven getting bombed.
@@DizzyNLD Imagine a great lord so inept and powerless that he kept Kissinger alive so long to avoid that, when he could apparently cancel him immediately..or cancel him before he did what he did....huh??
@@Simon-nv5zj it’s a joke doofus
As bad as Kissinger was, Christopher Hitchens supporting the Iraq War is still unforgivable.
nearly as bad as supporting the criminal rogue nation of Israyelle
True. It also cracks me up Hitchens talks about Kissinger's thin skin, Hitchens never took ANY criticism, doubling down on his opponent.
I'm sure he's in Atheist heaven regretting that one
Yes, that did surprise me. Also, he seems to have taken the company line completely on 9/11. He refused to discuss it at all, which I could never understand from such a sceptic.
He had complex and rather personal reasons for supporting it. As much of a disaster the intervention turned out to be, if we're going to be against it we should atleast conjure up an image of Iraq today had Saddam not being deposed; I'm not sure the picture looks any better!
How cool would it be to still have Hitchens in our time..
Excusing Kissinger by claiming it was all Nixon's influence is wrong. Kissinger was a malignant force to his dying breath.
Thanks for doing this you guys. Never forget who/what this and the others did.
100 years to repent! If he didn’t, his probably in the fire pit with Albright having a fire lava hot tea, remembering the killing days…
He'll have plenty of company.
The irony is that Hitchens himself ended up a cheerleader for the neocons, supporting and arguing for the invasion of Iraq. He too didn't show any remorse that the Anglo-American invasion was based on lies. He kept the pathetic line: Saddam was a bad guy!
Saddam was a bad guy. Hitchens supported regime change in Iraq to stop the human rights abuses. He didn't support the war for oil or believe in the lies about WMDs. He spent time in Iraq and with the Iraqi people and saw first hand how Evil Saddam and his sons were.
Well hussein was chemical bombing civilians. Halabja village for example.
If you were a Kurd Saddam Hussein certainly was a bad guy. If you don't have a problem with attempted genocide maybe you yourself are more aligned with the Kissinger way of thinking. Mr Hitchens was a tireless advocate for the Kurdish cause and for that alone he can be forgiven for appearing to being in league with the ghastly people you allude to. Hardly pathetic but a person of principle who was willing to back an unpopular action, particularly for one with his socialist credentials, for what he believed to be a mission that required immediate attention not withstanding his known views of the evils of religion. The region is and continues to be writhe with destruction related to the ascendency of various factions imaginary friends
@@clivebroadhead4857 Don't patronize me. I lived in Iraq and had many Kurdish friends. I was there during Halabja. I was there when the US-UK bombed every bridge. I was there when the embargo was taking its toll on the population.
There was a rebellion during the Iraq-Iran war. The Anfal operation was targeting the rebels. I didn't condone it and still do. I am telling you what a statesman would do.
Since you seem to have a high sense of morality, why don't you urge the US and UK to invade Israel? Or the Palestinians are not worthy of your heightened sense of sympathy. What Saddam did does not even begin to compare with what Israel has been doing over its existence to the Palestinians.
I am sick and tired of this armchair Western morality. You have a maxim, live by it or shut up.
George Gallaway has been consistent. Hitchens ended up the darling of the neocons. What an end!
Your response has little to do with my statement. Mr Hitchens had a maxim and he to all appearances lived by it. The relevance of Mr Gallaway is a moot point. I am not sure what 'western morality' refers to. Is it yours religious beliefs that I have offended? Why shouldn't you be patronised? You made the initial statement which I do not accept as dogma.@@naayou99
This a very sad interview, I had never heard of Christopher hitches until ly son gave me acopy of arguably essays Christopher I was enthralled from beginning to end I was envious of the depth and breadth of knowledge displayed in the book what a scholar, just awe inspiring.
And even Henry Kissinger thinks the present neocons are too much.
See what he started!
It didn't start with Kissinger (just ask the natives) and sadly, it won't end with Kissinger.@@jchapman8248
Henry Kissinger: The Mass Murderer of Politics.
Hitch worked until his last breath. I am so glad he kept going as long as he did. I appreciate all of his interviews and debates. He was an articulate, brilliant man!
Great work guys 👏
Kissinger was the most prolific war criminal of the 20th century?!
That’s a bold choice there, Cotton.
Yeah, that is an incredibly competetive field of contenders.
And reasonably true because he didn't need anyone's aproval.
@@Hands2HealNow Yeah, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot for example were notorious in their need of approval.
U can add bb netanyahu on that list.
Most prolific doesn't necessarily mean he was the most heinous although Kissenger was that as well, imo.
Kissenger is part of that tribe no one is allowed to speak of.
Thanks for the information!
doo not forget Hitchens. and Gore Vidal.
Gore Vidal saw what was coming. Wish he and Hitchens were still here as their brilliant commentary would run rings around the brain dead propagandists.
I like the Daedalus analogy.
Peter Hitchens too is a good man., Listen to his views on Kiissinger almost identical to his brotjer.
Hitchens a man of courage and scruples. Still looking for someone who could replace Hitchens, haven't found him yet, don't think l will.
Peter for me.
A good start, thks
Another Zionazi bites the dust 😂😂😂
Excellent assessment
He did live long enough to see most of what he accomplished completely undone and left in ruins.
That's wishful thinking at best. It'll take at least a century to undo what he and his ilk have done to the human race. And we are barely getting started.
The fact that most governments around the world paid him their respects is proof that the road ahead is still very, very long and difficult.
This man should be treated with the same contempt people have for Hitler. If not more.
Yes, millions killed won't come back
I'd love to believe in an afterlife if I knew that Henry Kissinger would get Hitchslapped one more time. Miss you Hitch!
We're going to miss his 'Magic Murder Bag' for sure.
I love how GooTube deletes any comment of what should become of his resting place.
Nixon and Kissinger were the perfect pragmatists. They were identical in that they gave up trying to work out right from wrong. It was genuinely just too hard for them. So they settled on the next best thing, they tried to do what they thought was best for America. What eventuated was the result of a complete lack of a moral philosophy - and of course it also ended up not being in the best interests of America, or anyone else.
I sure couldn’t find any photos of HK and Jane Fonda together
A Woodehouse reference. How I miss CH.
Kiss died? ... but I thought the Elites were all immortal ...
Immoral you meant. certainly... Never mind, typos are everywhere...
@@farerolobos9382 In a truly civilized world, we'd all be jumping for joy over the news of his passing ...
But no, the other members of his cabal just continue business as usual ... and how depressing it is to key members of the UniParty stand with Israel ...
That little rat Netanyahu has got America by the balls ...even sweet-talkin' Tulsi!
They're trying to be but they are too deluded to realize that they never will be.
It's so interesting this man brought up the 'mad scientist' archetype, because in Vedic astrology there is a star sign called Rohini which manifests in men as exactly that: an amoral creator, curious to see what happens and whether other people enjoy the creation. Kissinger had his Sun and Mercury in Rohini.
So wish CH were around to comment on the world today.
I remember that a lot of people used to imitate Kissinger’s voice for fun.
The intricacies of these remote foreign policy intrigues escape me, regrettably. But I respect Hitchens’ fidelity to the truth-if he says Kissinger was a scoundrel, he probably was.
One thing he and his brother Peter actually agreed on.
When I was a kid, all I saw of Henry Kissinger was his blinding celebrity. The media sure did a lot of Turd Polishing then! Today, they still do. These things never change.
Hitch told it as it is on Mother Theresa and HK.
If there is a Hell, this man is buring in it. Unfortunately, there probably isn't one.
It’s a shame that Hitchens couldn’t of lived to 100, but Kissinger did.
Only the good die young.
Kissinger was evil, not stupid. He was not a chain smoker.
Maybe Kissinger partook in that vile longevity substance made from the fear and torture induced life liquid of (AdrChr) society's wee ones?
What makes HK an amazing human being that being close to 100 years old he still was making advances to Elisabeth Holmes 😂
Thsnks for.includinh Christopher Hitchens. Even now his voice stands out as uniquely socialist.
So how come Norway gave Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
So many of us would like to know that.
They also gave it to Obama who never, ever, did anything. And they did it right after he took office, before he could have done something. That prize is just another political trinket.
It's Sweden actually.@@peterswires8439
His last words:
"Cambodian's...........fuck......
I doubt he’d be pictured with Jane Fonda
Lets just remember Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 🤣
This is great. Ive been commenting that the late great Hitchen's book be read and appreciated especially now that the putrid war criminal is finally kaput
I can agree with Hitchens about this
They can't blame Hitchens for speaking ill of the dead! :)
03:27 Of course Kissinger was a US pop star, his politics was exactly in line with majority politics ... he did what her did with the general support of the people of the US, feeling awkward about him now doesn't clean the sheets. I'd also say, the present Capitol Hill attitude to Israel's erasure of Palestinians would of course be supported by Kissinger, plus ca change?
I miss CH.
The major difference here is Hitchen's was a creative mind. Controlled by his psyche. A man amongst men.
Kissinger was a destructive mind...controlled totally by evil. This creature is a Vogon.
Yes a pop star. Referenced in a James Bond movie for his foreign influence in a moment of comedy
I disagreed with a lot of Hitchens stances on religion and politics in his debates but on this I fam in full agreement. Kissinger - part of the dark order shall we say.
Christopher maybe gone from this realm but he’ll never be forgotten. I hope he found heaven in the end. He was a great man.
Hitchens an intellectual giant!
Who supported the Iraq invasion/war....
Nobody's perfect I know but those who are always quick to put anybody who is very skilled at articulating their thoughts on a pedestal should keep that in mind
Afraid that i cant watch Hitch in this condition
how he would have loved to have outlasted Henry Kissinger
As always Mr Hitchens nailed..a remorseless narcissist as Secretary of State..with a President without a conscience..nasty combination..it is unfortunate that they both were not prosecuted for atrocities in Argentina, Chile and Cambodia
Get in there, Hitch!
This is ridiculous.
100 years says you have nothing
Lol at Chris Hitchens. "I know he made it a condition..." "I know I needled him..." (when it was Hitchens who was needled by Kissinger ignoring him) with nothing to back it up. Always a pleasure when someone stuck it to Kissinger, like Chris Hitchens did in his book, but laughable when he does his usual, I know this, I know that routine.
One was a war monger the other was an atheist ( forgive them for they no not what they do) .! He came to save not condemn Amen !
Kissinger was a sociopath.
Thank you guys, and good riddance to kissinger.
On Christopher Hitchens: trying to speak the truth up to the end of his life. Leave it at that.
Check Hitchens super duper support of the Iraq War.
He was supporting the iraqi left wing opposition to saddam hussein. His reasons were different from that of bush.
What about the clip with Russel playing the piano? 😢
I miss Hitchens…
👏👏👏
Putin* & Kissinger both use the same Savile Row Tailor
*the Kremlin flies out the tailor’s to visit the Kremlin
Small world
Love your show and greetings from london
And his current incarnartion is Klaus Schwab.
A jew hating another jew….IM IN HEAVEN
Watch the end of the flick, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
Kissinger was the perfect bagman for America's military, and industrial corporations. Kissinger was the textbook definition of a sociopath.
We need to know where will a grave be, so rest of us can come and dance!
Piss on it, more like.
And take a leak.
People should read Eustace Mullins not controlled opposition. One thing that has been scrubbed off the net is Kissinger discussing an economic crises in Greece and Cyprus so Israel can control the energy reserves in the eastern Med. Connect the dots. Kissinger was not Harry Potter with a magic wand.
Both can continue their debate in hell when they meet
The final enemy of my generation (the Vietnam War generation) is now gone, thank whatever god you believe in!
Hitchens was and always will be a wonderful human being, a light on a hill and something to aspire to. My Mum always told me that if you can’t say something nice about someone don’t say anything at all. So here’s what I think of Kissinger. Nothing.
You also could've gone with: "Kissinger is dead." "Good".
Hitchens was spot on when talking about that wretched creature Kissinger.