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Entry: The Kissinger Connection Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_kissinger_connection#1127 Post contents: Hoo Boy. "George", your patriotic concern is admirable, but let's keep some historical perspective: First of all, the phrase, "greatest form of government" is almost as oxymoronic as "the greatest Gangsta-Rapper", and even MORE oxymoronic than "the greatest whorehouse." And a nation's greatness (or a civilisation's greatness) is never determined by its government. Second - and this regards the kind of American Exceptionalist thinking which worries me most of all - America is NOT the "last best hope of Mankind", and the world will be better off when Americans stop believing in that dreadful Gothic apocalyptic superstition. Jesus said his Kingdom is not of this world, and the Kingdom of God sure as hell has never been headquartered in Washington DC. So, please, let's stop thinking of the end of the American Republic as the end of history, or even as the end of "Freedom". And on that note, even among temporal states, the USA has never been the ultimate, or even penultimate exemplar of "freedom." A great country with an especially ingenius constitution and extraordinary liberities? Yes, and it will be remembered as such for centuries or (God willing) millenia to come. But civilisation, and Christendom, and liberty will carry on and be reborn in new forms and in new nations long after the USA ceases to exist. As for the original topic, am I the only American who noticed Kissinger trudging onto the podium at the Republican National Convention in 2000 when Bush's foreign policy team were introduced? As soon as I saw Kissinger in that group - along with the ridiculous Condoleeza Rice - I started telling my friends the Bush administration would "create a foreign policy disaster." That was back in summer 2000. It should have been bloody obvious at that time, long before 911 happened. Ah, and as for Taki having "low-life" friends like Kissinger - good point about Taki's magnaminity! And Jesus Christ also had low-life friends, so, Taki is part of a great and noble tradition in being friends with a thick-witted criminal like Kissinger. ;-) Yes, it's to Taki's credit that he publishes this article - AND that he actually has truly intelligent friends too, not just intellectual mediocrities like Kissinger, who (in the words of one TRULY great historian who will remain nameless here) "would have remained a third-rate bureaucrat in the Foreign Service" back in the days when the US Foreign service consisted of real scholars rather than bolt-headed mechanical-minded Gothic-Freaks like HK. Sent at: 2008 05 16