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Entry: Happy Birthday, Dr. Hank Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/happy_birthday_dr_hank#1615 Post contents: It's precisely because Kissinger is not a great man - precisely because he's such a mediocrity, a bolt-headed mechanical-minded bureaucrat - that I'm disinclined to attribute too much blame to him for any fiasco. Kissinger is far too dull-witted to be anything other than a cog in a vast machine, upon whom too much blame AND praise have been nonsensically projected in this era which mistakes publicity for greatness. Comparing him to Metternich is nonsense. Kissinger is 100 percent a man of the degraded, intellectually and culturally decadent late 20th century - as De Gaulle perceived and expressed so rightly when De Gaulle treated Kissinger with unceremonious scorn on their first meeting in 1969, "Why the hell don't you get out of Viet Nam right now?" And Kissinger's buffoonery and vapid intellectual pretensions would have made him a laughing stock in the circles of Metternich. But I never cease to admire Taki for how he defends his friends, even if sometimes he wears blinders to do so. As I've said before, if Jesus accepted the hospitality and friendship of prostitutes and other reprobates, then a mere mortal like Taki has no reason to be snobbish toward mediocrities like Kissinger. Call Taki what you will, but mean-spirited he is not. Sent at: 2008 07 05